I recently learned about another woman who had left her PhD program because all the men in her lab wouldn't stop hitting on her and harassing her.

This is not the first time I have heard a story like this.

I am not usually prone to fits of uncontrollable rage, but I have been fucking seething.

We need to do better.

I should also add that *every single time* someone has said to me "oh, that could never happen here in my department", I have subsequently learned that it has, in fact, happened there.

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@dan and the big issue is that even when these things are called out (and I suspect a lot of times they aren't) universities tend to pretend nothing is going on and do as minimum as possible, meaning the person who has been harassed is the one who takes the worst of an already terrible situation

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