sexual harassment

Despite strides in gender equality most teenage girls continue to experience sexual harassment at home, school, and on the playing field.

(Wiley-Blackwell) A new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly explored the outcomes of sexual harassment on both boys and girls.

(Springer) Schools' current focus on bullying prevention may be masking the serious and underestimated health consequences of sexual harassment, according to James Gruber from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Susan Fineran from the University of Southern Maine in the US.

Their research, just published online in Springer's journal Sex Roles, shows that although less frequent, sexual harassment has a greater negative impact on teenagers' health than the more common form of victimization, bullying.