I am a scientist, and in college, I experienced a small amount of harassment. There was a math instructor who I graded for who invited me out to a bar. I brought my boyfriend. That was pretty easy to deal with. Much worse, though, was a history professor I was somehow referred to for advice on writing a scholarship essay. He was not one of my teachers, but he very uncomfortably invaded my personal life, and started getting very interested in me, my thoughts and feelings from a psychological perspective. It was harder to extricate myself from this guy, but one day it hit me how unprofessional he was being so I cut off all communication.
I guess the moral of my story is that it is not unique to science! Why couldn’t it happen in any academic field?