Sexual harassment within academic institutions has profound impacts that may lead to the attrition of groups historically excluded from the biological sciences and related disciplines. To understand sexual harassment's effects on vulnerable communities within academia, we examined graduate student experiences with sexual harassment. In a survey of ecology and evolutionary biology programs across the United States, we found that 38% of the graduate student respondents were sexually harassed during their time in these programs. Sexual harassment disproportionately affected graduate students with multiple intersecting marginalized identities, and these experiences led to delays in completing graduate programs and shifts away from their desired careers. Our research highlights the need for academic institutions, and science more broadly, to make widespread changes to sexual harassment policies, including treating sexual harassment as scientific misconduct and creating resources for individuals within students’ informal support networks, in tandem with efforts to dismantle barriers to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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性骚扰对美国具有多重边缘化身份的生态学和进化研究生的影响尤为严重

学术机构内的性骚扰具有深远的影响，可能导致历史上被排除在生物科学和相关学科之外的群体的流失。为了解性骚扰对学术界弱势群体的影响，我们调查了研究生的性骚扰经历。在一项针对全美生态学和进化生物学项目的调查中，我们发现 38% 的研究生受访者在这些项目期间受到过性骚扰。性骚扰不成比例地影响了具有多重交叉边缘化身份的研究生，这些经历导致延迟完成研究生课程并偏离他们想要的职业。我们的研究强调了对学术机构和更广泛的科学的需求，