Democrats Aim at Sexual Harassment in Science
April 9, 2019
Recently in Issues, the study director of a National Academies report on sexual harassment of women in academic science, engineering, and medicine surveyed the scope and nature of the problems and offered broad approaches for addressing them. Now, a group of Democrats in the Senate, citing the report, have built on companion efforts in the House to introduce a bill that would fund research on sexual harassment in the sciences, direct federal agencies to coordinate on reducing harassment, and help universities update their professional standards of conduct.