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UniSAFE – Gender-Based Violence at Universities Table 1 shows how many respondents of the overall research project and of
the TU Dresden stated that they had experienced gender-based violence in
Before looking at the individual university groups (students and employees) in the science and research system at least once. Of all respondents from the
the following sub-chapters, it is worth referring to the results of the UniSAFE TU Dresden, significantly more than half stated that they had experienced
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research project. The project investigated gender-based violence at Euro- gender-based violence. The highest figures for individuals who stated that
pean universities, as well as in the science sector, and was the largest study they had experienced gender-based violence at the TU Dresden at least
on this topic in Europe to date. The authors of the study define gender-ba- once were seen for employees (of all genders), women, and people from the
sed violence as violence that is specifically directed against members of a LGBQ+ spectrum .
particular gender identity, or types of violence that impact a particular group
with an above-average frequency. A distinction is made between six forms
of violence: physical violence, psychological violence, economic violence, Table 1
sexual violence, sexual harassment and online violence. Between January Project overall TUD Frequency of all forms of gender-based
and May of 2022, a survey was conducted at 46 participating universities in violence broken down by affected groups
15 European countries, in which around 42,000 participants (students and Total 62 % 59 % for the project as a whole and for the TU
employees) took part. Employees 73 % 65 % Dresden (source: UNISafe project)

The TU Dresden was also among the participating universities. Here, a total Students 58 % 55 %
of 1182 university members took part in the survey. Of these, 40.4 % were Women 66 % 65 %
employees and 59.6 % were students. Of the total respondents, 64.0% Men 56 % 50 % 1 Focus: Gender
identified themselves as female and 35.6% as male. The gender identity of
the remaining 0.4% was not available. Heterosexual 60 % 58 %
LGBQ+ 68 % 65 %

Looking at the different forms of gender-based violence surveyed (Figure 1),
it is clear that psychological violence occurred most frequently. 58.4% of
all women who had experienced gender-based violence at least once and
43.9% of men reported experiencing this form of violence. The second
most common form of gender-based violence is sexual harassment (women
37.4%, men 18.2%). Other forms of violence were experienced less often
with less than 10% per gender. It is noteworthy that men and women were
affected to a similar extent by online violence and economic violence. In
comparison, men were more affected by physical violence (4.8% vs. 2.3%),
whereas women were more affected by forms of sexual violence (3.1% vs.
3 Further information on the UniSAFE project is available at: 0.3%).
https://unisafe-gbv.eu/ (accessed: 02.02.2023).

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