Known as the “Godmother of Title IX,” Dr. Sanders played a key role in the 1972 passage of the federal statute prohibiting sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.
An interdisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and social workers at Yale University have developed a clinical tool that provides physicians with resources specific to the evaluation and management of adults seeking care in the emergency department after sexual assault. Use of the tool has been found to improve medical and forensic care for survivors.
If passed, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act would mandate institutions' websites to include campus safety policies, annual security reports, instructions for filing complaints, and statistics on sexual misconduct allegations on campus.
Among women who entered college in fall 2019, 64.3 percent completed their degree by 2025. For their male peers, only 58.1 percent completed their degree within six-years.
In the four years following an incident of faculty misconduct, there is a 3.4 percent decline in degree-completion rates in the perpetrator's academic field. However, this decline increases to 7 percent when examining cases occurring after 2015, potentially attributed to the rise of the #MeToo movement.
Between 2015 and 2022, the six-month risk of sexual violence was 74 percent higher for women ages 18 to 24 who were enrolled in college compared to women in the same age group who were not enrolled, according to a new study from Washington State University.
Overall, women are more likely than men to respond with empathy and engage in bystander intervention after observing workplace harassment. However, in organizations that are highly intolerant of harassment, this gender gap disappears, providing evidence that training programs centered on empathy can create safer workplace environments for everyone.
Although the number of sexual assault incidents declined in 2020 and 2021, there was an increase in assaults from current and former romantic partners, according to a study led by scholars at the University at Buffalo.
Last year, a student at New Mexico State University filed a civil lawsuit against the institution, claiming the university did not take sufficient action following her report of being raped in her dorm room in 2022. In addition to a $1 million settlement, NMSU will require all students to complete a consent and sexual assault training course at the beginning of every academic year going forward.
Tyffani Monford, an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, has been recognized by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Violence for her outstanding research and clinical contributions to the treatment and prevention of sexual harm.
Even decades after the abuse, women who have experienced intimate partner violence are more likely to report brain injuries, ongoing depression, anxiety, PTSD, and sleep disorders
