[wazoox]

This one is particularly shocking: "KATHRYN CLANCY: An eye on harassment"

basically, she discovered hos prevalent sexual harassment is in science. It looks like programmers and such aren't so bad, but more like the society as a whole. Depressing.

[nzp]

What's depressing and ironic is that these people are anthropologists and yet they are "shocked" and "surprised" by the results. Breaking news: Anthropologists Discover Sexuality in Humans.

What did they think would happen in an academic setting artificially sterilized of any attempt at realistic imperfect human relations? Of course there is harassment, people are frustrated. Note that I'm not excusing the behaviour, just trying to explain.

Aside the mere statement that there is harassment, it would be much more interesting and helpful in actually overcoming the problem to see the actual dynamics of the phenomenon backed by some actual data (she's aware herself how flimsy the data currently is, it says so in the article).