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Sexual Harassment in the Military

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/women-us-military-sexual-assault-harassment-study-assault-a8710071.html

Number of reports of Sexual Assaults and sexual harassment in the US military

"Two thirds of women in the American military polled for a recent survey said they had been sexually harassed or assaulted during their time in service.

In total, 68 per cent of women said they had experienced gender discrimination in the military and 66 per cent said they had experienced sexual harassment or assault.

Some six per cent of men said they had been harassed or assaulted, according to the poll of more than 1,000 service members which was carried out by Smithsonian magazine in conjunction with American military newspaper Stars and Stripes and the Schar School at George Mason University in Virginia."

The Pentagon does not track instances of sexual harassment, its annual study released in April last year revealed reports of sexual assault in the US military increased by nearly 10 per cent in 2017.

Pentagon does not have statistics for reports of SH, they don't track them. Sexual assaults are tracked though. There has been an increase in reported assaults in Army, Navy, AF, and Marines since last year.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/army-mindseye2-sexual-harassment-training-promising.html

During her six years in the Army, including a deployment to Iraq and promotion to staff sergeant, Antonieta Rico says she saw survivors of sexual assault and harassment who came forward labeled as troublemakers and leaders who preferred hiding problems to protect reputations rather than confronting them. She recalls being one of a handful of women in an anti–sexual assault and harassment training when the trainer, a more senior male officer, offered up this scenario: “ ‘So, if you saw a naked, drunk girl on the bench outside your barracks, would you hit that? You’re not supposed to. But I probably would,’ ” she recalls him saying. “That gets to the root of the problem right there. No one takes it seriously,” she says.

After years of intense scrutiny brought on by the Tailhook scandal of 1991, in which investigators brought more than 140 cases of sexual misconduct against those who assaulted more than 80 women, and after decades of congressionally mandated surveys and annual sexual assault trainings and countless unflattering media accounts, the U.S. military’s problem with sexual misconduct is hardly a secret. One in five active-duty women are sexually harassed every year, as are 7 percent of men. The number of alleged assaults reported militarywide shot up 10 percent in the past year. And while military leaders attributed the jump to more targets being willing to come forward, the 6,769 people who reported being assaulted represent the highest number of reported assaults since the military began tracking them in 2006.

An army member teaching a sexual harassment class makes inappropriate remarks about assaulting a drunk naked girl in a WWYD hypothetical scenario.

http://sapr.mil/public/docs/reports/FY16_Annual/FY16_SAPRO_Annual_Report.pdf

DOD FY 16 SAPRO Report

"The odds of being sexually assaulted are about 16x higher for active duty women who indicated they experienced sexual harassment than active duty women who have not and 50 x higher for men."

"The DoD cannot conclude that SH causes SA, however these phenomena appear to occur together."

DoD - 2/3 of women do not report

Some who have reported state that they have experienced adverse outcomes in their military careers, including being ostracized by peers (including on social media) and retaliation by superiors. Promotions denied, intentionally downgraded evaluations, unfair denial of award earned.

http://digital.films.com.jwupvdz.idm.oclc.org/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=142574

“The Legacy of Tailhook.” Films Media Group, 2013, digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=99165&xtid=142574. Accessed 6 Feb. 2019.