Ninety-four percent of women working in entertainment have experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault during their careers, according to a new survey of hundreds of women in Hollywood.
According to the survey, which was published Tuesday in USA Today and produced as a collaboration of the newspaper, the Creative Coalition, Women in Film and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the most frequent incidents of harassment in the Hollywood workplace are unwelcome sexual comments, jokes or gestures directed to a woman or about a woman (87 percent of respondents said they experienced such comments).
Other experiences reported by the majority of respondents include unwanted sexual comments (75 percent of respondents saw or experienced it), “being touched in a sexual way” (69 percent), witnessing colleagues advancing in the workplace due to sexual relationships with higher-ups (65 percent) and being propositioned for a sexual activity in the workplace (64 percent).