Frequency and attitudes to specific forms of unwanted sexual behaviour for each gender (numbers represent counts)
| Female trainees (n=48) | Male trainees (n=37) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From colleagues | From patients | From colleagues | From patients | |||||||||
| Exp? | Harass? | Exp? | Harass? | Exp? | Harass? | Exp? | Harass? | |||||
| Uninvited sexual teasing, jokes, remarks, questions, looks or gestures | 22 (0) | 11 (—) | 36 (5) | 10 (0) | 24 (7) | 5 (3) | 27 (8) | 11 (4) | ||||
| Uninvited pressure for dates | 11 (1) | 7 (0) | 13 (2) | 4 (0) | 4 (0) | 0 (—) | 10 (1) | 5 (0) | ||||
| Uninvited and deliberate touching, leaning over or cornering | 10 (0) | 9 (—) | 19 (3) | 12 (0) | 4 (0) | 2 (—) | 14 (1) | 9 (1) | ||||
| Uninvited letters, telephone calls or material of a sexual nature | 5 (0) | 4 (—) | 5 (0) | 3(—) | 1 (0) | 1 (—) | 4 (0) | 2 (—) | ||||
Exp? = Have you experienced this behaviour? Harass? = Did you regard it as a form of ‘sexual harassment’? Figures in brackets indicate frequencies for ‘same-sex’ experiences only.