STATISTICS

• Legal fees for defending a sexual harassment civil court case in court average about $250,000.

• Judgments in sexual harassment cases routinely exceed $1 million.

• The U.S. Department of Labor has estimated that businesses lose around $1 billion as a result of sexual harassment.

Workplace Statistics

A telephone poll found that, of the 1112 workers polled,:

• 9% of male workers claimed to have been harassed at work.

• 29% of female workers claimed to have been harassed at work.

• 60% of targets took no action.

Analysis of the harassment incident:

• 45% were harassed by a supervisor.

• 25% were harassed by an employee senior to them.

• 15% were harassed by a coworker at their level.

• 12% were harassed by a junior employee.

Analysis of harasser:

• 100% of the women's harassers were a man.

• 59% of the men's harassers were a woman.

• 41% of men's harassers were another man.

School Statistics

(From a survey: 1,990 polled in grades 8 through 12):

• 85% of the girls have been harassed.

• 35% of the boys have been harassed.

• 35% of girls harassed by school employees.

• 15% of boys harassed by school employees.

An analysis of the data showed that African-American girls are three times more likely to be harassed than white or Latino girls.