sexual harassment

Roughly 43% of women founders say the harassment occurred within the last 12 months, according to a Women Who Tech report.

As Fort Hood’s commander, Lt. Gen. Pat White faces the immense task of rebuilding trust and turning around an installation with one of the highest rates of murder, sexual assault and harassment in the Army.

More than a dozen female former employees of Washington’s NFL team say they were sexually harassed on the job, according to a bombshell report published Thursday by The Washington Post.  The women described relentless verbal abuse that they say top executives ignored and even condoned. Former marketing coordinator Emily Applegate spoke on the record with the Post and NBC...

An Army commander confirmed Monday that dismembered remains found last week buried near Fort Hood belonged to a 20-year-old soldier who vanished more than two months ago from the Texas base.

Multiple women are accusing comedian Chris D’Elia of sexual harassment and grooming.

New regulations released Wednesday by the Education Department will change how K-12 schools respond to students’ reports of sexual assault and harassment, requiring administrators to more formally investigate claims and share the evidence with accused students and their parents, NBC News reports.

Some landlords are taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak, soliciting sexual favors in lieu of rent payments from economically vulnerable tenants, according to advocates. Khara Jabola-Carolus, executive director of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, said her office has received more reports of landlords sexually harassing their tenants in the last two weeks than it had in…

New York authorities are investigating celebrity chef Mario Batali after uncovering information during a separate probe of a Manhattan restaurant, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday. The state announced a sexual harassment settlement Tuesday for 11 former employees of West Village restaurant The Spotted Pig, where Batali was once an investor. Attorney General Letitia James, at a news conference on…

Uber Technologies Inc. will establish a $4.4 million fund to settle a federal investigation into allegations that the San Francisco company allowed a rampant culture of sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Wednesday.

The maker of popular video game League of Legends has agreed to pay $10 million to female employees to settle a broad gender discrimination case. Los Angeles-based Riot Games will pay about 1,000 current and former female employees who have worked at the company in the last five years. The case against Riot Games claimed the company paid women less…

Former Scottish leader Alex Salmond, one of the country’s best-known politicians, appeared in court on Thursday on charges including attempted rape and sexual assault. Salmond was arrested Wednesday, and faces 14 charges including nine counts of sexual assault and two of attempted rape. In a brief statement outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Salmond said: “I am innocent of any criminality whatsoever.”...

Allegations of inappropriate behavior, some rising to the level of a criminal offense, are piling up against comedian Andy Dick.

The jury that found Bill Cosby guilty at his sexual assault retrial said the MeToo movement had nothing to do with their decision. Rather, they said they were *only* influenced by what happened in court. If that’s the case…then what has the me too movement changed? Are women reporting sexual harassment more often? Are they being taken more seriously? Multiple...

Amazon announced “Transparent” actor Jeffrey Tambor will not be back for the fifth season web series. The statement follows the conclusion of an internal investigation into the Emmy-award winning actor, who stood against two sexual harassment accusations. An amazon’s spokesperson did not disclose specifics of the departure.

Guess Inc. says the board formed on Wednesday a special committee comprised of two independent directors to oversee an ongoing probe into allegations of improper conduct by its co-founder Paul Marciano.

A number of Democratic senators called on Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to resign, following multiple sexual harassment allegations. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) discussed her call for his resignation during a news conference.

Danielle Young, a journalist for “The Root,” has accused civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson of sexually harassing her at a photo-op event three years ago. Young says Jackson groped her and made a lewd comment.

Police in London, Los Angeles and New York are working to untangle an ever-growing mass of sexual assault and harassment complaints against powerful men, creating challenges even for big cities used to handling celebrities.

In the wake of an outpouring of sexual misconduct allegations against men in the entertainment industry, media and politics in recent weeks, British-born actress Angela Lansbury has said that women are partially responsible for sexual harassment. “We must sometimes take blame, women,” the 92-year-old actress told Radio Times. “I really do think that. Although it’s awful to say we can’t...

Radio host and Fox News panelist Leeann Tweeden held a press conference Thursday detailing her experience on a 2006 USO tour with then-comedian Al Franken and alleged that Franken forcibly kissed her during a skit written by Franken. She also said he groped her while she was asleep, providing photographic evidence. Sen. Franken has issued an apology and is open…