[yibg]

Maybe unpopular opinion but I would assume men in positions of power / wealth would be more likely to engage in these types of behavior.

Romance / sex is a pretty primal thing for most people, in many cases limited by available options and / or consequences. It also tends to override the more logical parts of the brain. Having more options opened up, even if causing ethical issues I'm pretty sure will push a good percentage of men over.

I have no idea what that percentage is, but I wouldn't think it is very small. I think if we dig hard enough we'd uncover a lot more of of these cases in many different companies.

[Aloha]

I would assume people in positions of power / wealth are more likely to engage in these types of behavior.

[yibg]

Possibly, but at least in the news it’s been primarily men. Could be just reporting bias. Would be interesting if there were actual numbers though.

[Aloha]

I suspect its reporting bias by the victims, male victims of sexual harassment/rape are often not taken seriously.

[celticmusic]

In addition, many men don't consider a lot of behaviors as sexual harassment, and so think nothing of it.

[rossdavidh]

If we look at the behavior of alpha males vs. alpha females in other non-human mammalian species, it suggests that it is at least more common among alpha males. Not that it couldn't also happen with females.

[solipsism]

What do non-human mammalian species have to do with anything? Few things vary across species more than sexual behavior. Even chimps and bonobos (very closely related, same genus) have wildly different gender roles, sexual/mating patterns, etc.

It makes no sense at all to invoke the entire of mammalia.