As a military family, we keep up on community news, and I saw this article this afternoon. I thought it was worth a share.
Those numbers are horrifying - especially the ones in the anonymous survey that show approximately half of the women in the three branches have been harassed.
My husband is a Marine and has always pursuaded my children to not pursue the military, either through enlistment or the academies. He’s know too many females to be poorly treated in the service.
[quoe]Unlike in previous years, DoD did not say that the increase was tied to an increase in reporting but instead a failure to solve the root culture causes
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Wow. I know two young women in service academies right now.
Do we think SA women are more or less likely to be assaulted than at non-SA colleges and universities? By a lot?
According to the article below, 16% of female cadets report instances of assault (50% report harassment!). I would think the rates at most civilian colleges would have to be much lower.
According to this article the rate for the general population of coeds is 11%.
https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics has some numbers:
- "27% of college women have experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact"
- "Nearly two thirds of college students experience sexual harassment"
Whether these are comparable to the numbers found in https://partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/client_files/1548954936.pdf (15.8% of women reported unwanted sexual contact, and 50.8% of women and 15.5% of men reported sexual harassment in all of the service academies) may depend on how survey questions are worded and how surveys were conducted.
If they are comparable, then the service academies have a lower rate of problems of this nature than colleges generally – but far too high for what should be a highly disciplined student group in a highly regulated environment.
However, that is for all students (female and male, undergraduate and graduate). The same page says that “Among undergraduate students, 23.1% of females and 5.4% of males experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation.” Note that this wording is different from “unwanted sexual contact”.