Even in egalitarian Sweden, a "culture of silence" may prevent university staff and students from reporting sexual harassment

Even in egalitarian Sweden, a "culture of silence" may prevent university staff and students from reporting sexual harassment, with just an 8.1% reporting rate for students who had experienced either rape or attempted rape.

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Article URL: https://plos.io/4bW0elh

Article title: What determines the ‘culture of silence’? Disclosing and reporting sexual harassment among university employees and students at a large Swedish public university

Author countries: Sweden

Funding: This work was funded by the Swedish Research Council, grant number 2018-02457, main applicant AA. URL: https://www.vr.se/english.html The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.