Sexual Harassment

Several members of Congress are already eying legislation to require universities to report taxpayer-funded harassers to the government.

• By Francie Diep

Activists are putting the pressure on the federal government to leverage its money against alleged sexual harassers.

• By Francie Diep

The Trump administration announces new immigration rules, more wildfires erupt in California, and Google changes its sexual misconduct policies in response to walkouts.

• By Rebecca Worby

In their book, Juno Mac and Molly Smith examine sex workers' struggles in the modern world.

• By Arvind Dilawar

Harvey Weinstein arrives at the New York State Supreme Court on October 11th, 2018, in New York City, a year after the sexual assault and harassment charges against him broke.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The letters-to-the-editor section of Science, one of the world's top scientific journals, is taking a new stance on what arguments it will accept about those accused of sexual harassment.

• By Francie Diep

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Coverage of sexual harassment and assault allegations is up 30 percent compared to the months immediately before the New York Times published its story about Harvey Weinstein.

• By Francie Diep

They're linked to high blood pressure, insomnia, and depression.

• By Francie Diep

What happens to taxpayer money when scientists are faced with accusations or findings of wrongdoing?

• By Francie Diep

A glacier in Antarctica gets a new name and, once more, environmental regulations are under threat.

• By Rebecca Worby

Advocates see this as a concrete signal to the scientific community that bad behavior won't be tolerated.

• By Francie Diep

The proposed policies could go into effect without requiring a vote from Congress.

• By Rebecca Worby

The rescinded award comes hot on the heels of a grassroots push, among scientists on social media, to get scientific awards removed from alleged harassers.

• By Francie Diep

In a new study, males were more likely to endorse sexually aggressive behavior if they worried they were viewed as incompetent.

• By Tom Jacobs

Some members of the science community are fighting to ensure that a finding of harassment leads to consequences far beyond whatever the university decides—including their removal from the National Academy of Sciences.

• By Francie Diep

Meanwhile, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is struggling with its own controversy over whether it properly punishes member harassers.

• By Francie Diep

There's not been a sudden spike in sexual harassment within our state legislatures; this has been going on for decades. And professors who help send students to statehouse internships need to be mindful of that fact.

• By Seth Masket

Scientists found to have harassed colleagues or subordinates are now open to having their NSF grants revoked.

• By Francie Diep

One might expect an industry that prioritizes empathy for others to also be a friendly workplace environment for women. But that's not always the case.

• By James McWilliams

In between the rows of men were writers who had been underestimated, rejected, and pushed out—even if their names were and remain unknown.

• By Melissa Gira Grant

Numerous writers over the years have written at-length about the worst parts of the entertainment industry. So why have so many people missed it?

• By Billy J. Stratton

Much of it can be traced to the consequences of tip-based compensation for workers in a predominantly female workforce.

• By Lauren Kaori Gurley