30% Female Surgeons Sexually Assaulted in Britain!

Around one-third of the female surgeons in the United Kingdom faced sexual assault by colleagues in the past five years, revealed a new survey published in the British Journal of Surgery (BJS), which was reported by the BBC. Some of them were also raped.

The study involved registered surgeons – men and women – who took part in the survey completely anonymously. There were 1,434 respondents.

The survey revealed that 30% of female surgeons who responded said they had been sexually assaulted, 29% of women had experienced unwanted physical advances at work, over 40% had received uninvited comments about their body and 38% received sexual “banter” at work.

“90% of women, and 81% of men, had witnessed some form of sexual misconduct,” the BBC reported citing the study.