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Men's and women's most serious experiences of sexual harassment and gender discrimination look broadly the same across the active-component Army

• Women's most serious experiences often include gender discrimination, behaviors that might be linked to attempts to initiate a romantic or sexual relationship, and persistent or offensive sexual jokes and discussions of sex in the workplace.
• Men's most serious experiences often include insults related to their masculinity, sexual orientation, or gender expression and persistent or offensive sexual jokes and discussions of sex in the workplace.
• For both women and men, there are few differences between high-risk and non–high-risk installations or across high-risk installations.

Men's and women's experiences of harassment and discrimination in the Army share some common characteristics, but the behaviors experienced are different

• Women are more likely to experience gender discrimination, repeated attempts to establish an unwanted romantic or sexual relationship, and sexual comments about their appearance, whereas men are more likely to be told that they do not act like a man is supposed to act.
• Although the typical perpetrator in both men's and women's most serious experiences of harassment or discrimination are male enlisted military members, women are more likely to indicate that the perpetrator was their direct supervisor or another higher-ranked member of their chain of command.
• Women's and men's experiences frequently take place at work during the workday and involve exposure to offensive or persistent discussions of and jokes about sex.

To better understand sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the Army, RAND Arroyo Center researchers created profiles of active-component soldiers' most serious sexual harassment and gender discrimination experiences. This report describes the most common types of behaviors that occur, characteristics of (alleged) perpetrators, most common times and places in which sexual harassment and gender discrimination occur, and differences between high-risk and non–high-risk installations.

Women's and men's experiences of sexual harassment and gender discrimination look broadly the same at high-risk installations compared with non–high-risk installations, and they do not appear to differ across high-risk installations. However, men's and women's experiences of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the active-component Army are very different. Women are more likely than men to experience gender discrimination, repeated attempts to establish an unwanted romantic or sexual relationship, and sexual comments about their appearance, whereas men are more likely than women to be told that they do not act like a man is supposed to act. Soldiers often experience multiple forms of sexual harassment and gender discrimination; women experience more types of behaviors, on average, than men do. What women's and men's experiences have in common is that they frequently take place at work during the workday and involve exposure to offensive or persistent discussion of and jokes about sex.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Analytic Approach

• Chapter Three

  Women's Experiences of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination in the Army

• Chapter Four

  Men's Experiences of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination in the Army

• Chapter Five

  Comparing Women's and Men's Experiences with Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination

• Chapter Six

  Conclusion

• Appendix A

  Technical Details of The Construction of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination Profiles

• Appendix B

  Tabular Results for Chapters 3 Through 5