Created by Duo Yang, Chuyao Wang

©   Duo Yang   &   Chuyao Wang   -   2018

Sexual Harassment in Academia

As the #MeTooPhD movement starts gaining momentum in 2017, we started to realize the seriousness of sexual harassment in the academic settings. Unfortunately, large scale data of sexual harassment incidents in academia is extremely rare.

Thanks to Dr. Karen Kelsky, who started the Crowdsourced Survey of Sexual Harassment in the Academy, a large amount of self-reported data (2000+ incidents) has become publicly available, bringing this issue to light.

Utilizing that data, this visualization aims to shed light on some of the repeating themes and patterns in the survey with the help of D3, and hopefully help to harness this momentum and push forward.

Sexual Harassment Incidents

As of Feb 4th 2018, the crowdsourced survey has collected 2468 self-reported sexual harassment incidents in the academic settings from all over the world.

Each dot in the grid represents an incident.

Incidents Reported to Authorities
Red dots represents the incidents where perpetrators were reported to the departments. Grey dots represents the unreported incidents and light grey dots represents unknown reported.
Gender of Perpetrators
Vast majority of the perpetrators are Male.
Type of Institutions
Most incidents happened in research universities.
Power Relationship

Left-hand and right-hand side are respectively, the status of perpetrators and targets of the self-reported incidents.

There is an obvious imbalance between perpetrators and targets status, as is shown by a much higher concentration of perpetrators as faculty and targets as students.

Mental Impact
This chart shows the mental impact extracted from the original data. We can see that the anxiety, depression, and stress are the three major mental impact of the incidents to the victims.