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More than one-fifth of people who work for the National Institutes of Health and who responded to a survey by the agency have experienced some form of harassment during the last year, according to an interim report the agency published on Wednesday (June 12). Of nearly 16,000 respondents, 10 percent reported that they had experienced unwanted sexual attention, while 18 percent said they had been subject to gender harassment.
“This report provides further evidence that we have work to do in order to make good on our determination that ‘harassment doesn’t work here,’” Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), wrote in an email to employees on Wednesday, according to Science.
The interim report, based on data collected between January and March this year, is part of a wider initiative to combat harassment in the agency. More than 40 percent of the approximately ...
