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STUDENT<br />
FACT<br />
SHEET<br />
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Most students have experienced some form of sexual harassment in school. And<br />
while the impact of sexual harassment in school is significant for all students, girls<br />
suffer greater effects than boys. Further, the level of sexual harassment of boys is<br />
surprisingly high. A survey of 1632 public school students in grades eight through<br />
.' 11 from 79 different schools across the country* revealed:<br />
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> Four out of every five students (81%) report that they have experienced<br />
unwanted and unwelcome sexual behavior that has interfered with their lives.<br />
Of all the students who filled out the survey, only 15% ofthe girls and<br />
24% of the boys report that they have not been sexually harassed.<br />
>66% of the girls and 49% of the boys who report being harassed say that it<br />
has happened to them more than once, and one in three girls and one in five<br />
boys report that it has happened "often." .<br />
> In the racial breakdown of sexual harassment in school there are greater gaps<br />
among boys than gil-Is. For all the boys surveyed, African Americans (81 %)<br />
are more likely to have experienced sexual harassment than whites (75%) and<br />
. Hispanics (69%). For all girls surveyed, 87% of white girls report having<br />
experienced sexual harassment, compared with 84% of African American and'<br />
82% of Hispanic girls.<br />
- > 54% of girls and 40% of boys first experienced sexual harassmentbetween .<br />
sixth and ninth grade. ~<br />
> Two thirds of all students say that they have been targets of sexual comments,<br />
jokes, gestures, or looks. .<br />
> 65% of girls and 42% of boys say that they have been touched, grabbed, or ..<br />
pinched in a sexual way.'<br />
> 57% of girls and 36% of boys say that they have been intentionally brushed<br />
up against in a sexual way.<br />
> 49% of girls and 41 % of boys report that they have been mooned or flashed,<br />
> 42% of girls and 34% of boys say they have been the target of sexual rumors.<br />
> 38% of girls and 28% of boys have had their clothes pulled at in a sexual way.<br />
HRM VIDEO<br />
No EXCUSES: SEXUAL HARASSMENT<br />
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