More Than a Third of Tech Industry Employees Have Experienced or Witnessed Sexism, a New Survey Finds
Other research suggests that women are more likely to experience both sexism and sexual harassment in male-majority workplaces.
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Topic: Sexual Assault & Harassment
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What Joe Biden’s Joke About ‘Permission’ to Hug Reveals About Men’s Understanding of Consent
Even as men profess to understand affirmative consent in their jokes and apologies, many conflate sexual desire with consent in practice.
How Men’s Rights Groups Use the Rhetoric of ‘Equality’ to Punish Women
True justice is served by fixing institutions and policies—not by making policy equally harmful to all genders.
What If the Future Were Delightful?
Two new books argue for the virtues of pleasure—as an end in itself, but also as a political tool.
Pop Music Lyrics Are More Violent Than Those in Hip-Hop
New research finds that contemporary songs in both genres are the most likely to contain violent imagery.
Martha McSally’s Experience With Sexual Assault in the Military Is Part of a ‘Silent Epidemic’
Sexual assault in the military affects about 4.3 percent of female service members, but it often goes unreported.
The Director of a Major Science Funding Agency Apologizes for Taking So Long to Address Sexual Harassment in Science
The National Institutes of Health also released the numbers of scientists it has taken action against, in response to claims they harassed others.