Topic: Sexual Assault & Harassment

New research suggests that men tend to aim their sexual harassment at women they perceive as less powerful.

The Combating Sexual Harassment in Science Act would compel America's science agencies to hold taxpayer-funded labs accountable for harassment.

Trump-era developments in policy and enforcement have discouraged immigrant survivors of abuse from seeking justice, a new survey finds.

A few years into science's #MeToo movement, the government agencies that fund American science are still working on solidifying rules meant to keep harassers from working with students, and to deter harassment in the future.

The change is a sign of the progress anti-harassment activists have made—and it's been a long time coming.

Here's what experts say about best practices to prevent sexual harassment on the campaign trail.

Other research suggests that women are more likely to experience both sexism and sexual harassment in male-majority workplaces.

Even as men profess to understand affirmative consent in their jokes and apologies, many conflate sexual desire with consent in practice.

True justice is served by fixing institutions and policies—not by making policy equally harmful to all genders.

Two new books argue for the virtues of pleasure—as an end in itself, but also as a political tool.

New research finds that contemporary songs in both genres are the most likely to contain violent imagery.

Sexual assault in the military affects about 4.3 percent of female service members, but it often goes unreported.

The National Institutes of Health also released the numbers of scientists it has taken action against, in response to claims they harassed others.