Sexual Assault, Oregon State University

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Statistics

A survey conducted by the American Psychological Association on female graduate students revealed:

Sexual harassment is very widespread and affects women in every workplace setting and at every level of employment. Surveys indicate that almost half of all working women have experienced some form of harassment on the job, a proportion that has not changed since the issue gained visibility in the early 1980s.
No occupation is immune from sexual harassment, but the incidence of harassment is higher in workplaces that have traditionally excluded women, including both blue collar jobs like mining and white collar ones like surgery.
Very few harassed women, only 5 - 15%, formally report problems of harassment to their employers or fair employment agencies.
Women are sometimes reluctant to make allegations of sexual harassment for a number of reasons, including fear of losing their jobs or otherwise hurting their careers, fear of not being believed, the belief that nothing can or will be done about the harassment, and embarrassment or shame at being harassed.
From 1992 - 1999, however, the EEOC has seen a 45% increase in sexual harassment charges.
Workers can be, and are, harassed by anyone in the workplace. That includes supervisors, co-workers, and even customers and clients. Men as well as women can be harassed, and the harasser can be the same sex as the victim.