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Key Statistics

• 58% of women faculty and staff in academia (all disciplines, not limited to science, engineering, and medicine) experienced sexual harassment.

• One recent study of women in space sciences found that women of color were more likely than white women and men of color to report feeling unsafe because of their gender (40%) as well as race (28%). The report finds that women of color experience more sexual harassment “as a manifestation of both gender and race discrimination.”

• Report by NASEM

  • In a survey the University of Texas System conducted among its graduate and undergraduate students, about 20% of female science students and more than 40% of female medical students experienced sexual harassment from faculty or staff. 

  • The Pennsylvania State University System conducted a similar survey and found that 33% of its female undergraduates and 43% of its female graduate students (all disciplines) experienced sexual harassment from faculty or staff; so did 50% of female medical students.

INDUSTRY RESOURCES

• American Association of University Professors

• The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM)

• Women’s Media Center (WMC) 

• Each U.S. university/college has their own codes of conduct 

  • E.g. PennState’s AD91 Discrimination and Harassment and Related Inappropriate Conduct and Stanford

INDUSTRY NEWS

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