Sexual harassment and abuse in the health sector: data are needed to inform our response

Five years ago, #metoo detonated a global movement as millions of women, and some men, told stories of coercion, harassment, threats, stalking, groping, and rape. It became clear that sexual exploitation and abuse was taking place in communities and workplaces on a monumental scale. It was also, unfortunately, clear that justice wasn’t being served in most cases. Reporting abuse meant that women had to relive the experience, often unsupported, while facing the power imbalance of remedial systems that were often geared to protect the perpetrators.Even with the overwhelming number of social media posts, column inches, and employers making public pronouncements, there is still a great deal that we don’t know about the phenomena of sexual abuse in the workplace. Processes for whistleblowing are often cloaked in secrecy, ostensibly to protect those affected, but the trade-off is that abusers are also protected. In some cases, where reporting does result in evidence…
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