New Study Finds Sexual Harassment Rampant in Hollywood Despite #MeToo Movement

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Despite the rise of the #MeToo movement, which encourages victims of sexual abuse to share their stories and bring awareness to the issue, sexual harassment is still rampant in Hollywood, according to a new survey.

The Hollywood Commission survey, led by Anita Hill, who famously accused Justice Clarence Thomas of harassment, found 69 percent of respondents said that they still see harassment even as they have also seen improvement in Hollywood’s culture, according to Variety.

The survey of 10,000 members of the entertainment industry was conducted online between November 2019 and February 2020.

“As an industry, Hollywood has an extremely sexualized culture — for both men and women,” Hill told Variety. “When there are power imbalances, people with influence tend to abuse their power regardless of gender.”

Women are on the receiving end of much of the harassment. However, 62 percent of male respondents also claimed they had been subjected to unsettling and crude “locker room talk.” Still, the male respondents were half as likely to suffer sexual harassment, the survey found.

Forty-two percent of female respondents said they had experienced unwanted touch, hugging, stroking, or persistent requests for dates or sexual contact. Twenty percent said they had suffered sexual coercion risking their career, and five percent said they were victims of outright sexual abuse.

One in five women and one in ten men said they had been assaulted in the workplace.

Hill said that the survey’s full results would be published sometime before the end of the year.

“The majority of workers surveyed believe that there has been moderate to a lot of progress made in promoting respect since the #MeToo movement and there has certainly been increased awareness of the issue,” she added.

“That said, the numbers reported here are extremely high and concerning… And when you consider these numbers in combination with the prevalence of bias, bullying and lack of accountability found in our previous three reports, you see how unsafe the entertainment workplace still is for many workers,” Hill continued. “Certainly, all efforts to eliminate harassment should be applauded, but we cannot be satisfied with the level of improvement as long as anyone in the industry is at risk in industry workplaces.”

4 thoughts on “New Study Finds Sexual Harassment Rampant in Hollywood Despite #MeToo Movement

  1. I believe that Biden (Hunter.ANDJoe) news is the main reason f9r the silence 9f sexual assault and abuse

  2. Hollywood was always a specter to draw people who seek fame; for the price of what?
    The history of Hollywood was not all that as nice as it appears
    The ones with the most greenbacks and toys tend to get what they want
    Hum…doesn’t this sound like “ sign this paper for your soul”?
    “Me Too” movement is talk, as well as heresy; depending on the predator
    It is really all about labels, titles and recognition, like sports only this one is the meat factory. This behaviorism is as old as mankind’s history on the Earth under all kingdoms human or beast—nature programmed in the DNA in the very beginning for survival of the fittest which is no longer required in that nature-It has only been exchanged for another developed behavioral “ norm”
    Does that mean the starting of life has two choices- being aborted or being pre- fixed
    In the DNA a strand? (Ounce of prevention?)

  3. Are the teachers not enjoying their jobs. They should pay attention to there jobs no young people looks. How do their children dress at home?

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