Women employed in casual and contract jobs are up to ten times more likely to experience unwanted sexual advances than those in permanent full time positions, a University of Melbourne study has found.

Girls and women have made dramatic strides toward gender equality in the United States. Role models and opportunities for girls in science, technology, and sports exist today that were not available 50 years ago. Despite these advances, results from a new study show that teenage girls from diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds continue to experience sexism.

Teenage girls of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds still experience sexism and sexual harassment – but cultural factors may control whether they perceive sexism as an environmental problem or as evidence of their own shortcomings.

A new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly explored the outcomes of sexual harassment on both boys and girls. While girls were harassed more frequently, boys were indirectly yet negatively affected through a school climate that tolerates the harassment of girls.

Hillary Andrews, 38, ex-anchorwoman on The Weather Channel, has won a sexual harassment case against former co-anchor Bob Stokes.

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.

Jessica Gibson, the nanny of Rob Lowe and wife Sheryl Berkoff, accused Lowe of sexual harassment on NBC's Today Show on Tuesday morning. While Gibson and two other former employees demand money from Lowe, he’s countered with a suit that says he’s the victim of an extortion plot and that the three employees have engaged in a variety of misdeeds, including sex on his bed while he and his wife were gone.

Workplace bullying, such as belittling comments, persistent criticism of work and withholding resources, appears to inflict more harm on employees than sexual harassment, say researchers who presented their findings at a conference today.

Roll Call today broke a story that Senator Larry Craig, a veteran republican senator from Idaho was arrested in in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom.

In the hands of the wrong person, power can be dangerous. That's especially the case in the workplace, where the abuse of power can lead to sexual harassment.