As of August 2025, approximately 81 percent of women in Great Britain thought that more should be done to address and openly discuss sexual misconduct, compared with 14 percent who thought that it had been achieved.

According to a survey conducted in 2019, 13 percent of women in the United Kingdom have been exposed to visual and verbal harassment at work such as to whistling, rude gestures or comments. In this year, another common type of sexual harassment at work in the United Kingdom was reported by women who were exposed to obscene proposals or messages with a sexual connotation at work.

This statistic shows the results of a 2017 survey in which female adults in Great Britain were asked if they had experienced sexual harassment in a public place in the last five years, broken down by age group. 18 to 25 year olds are most likely to be victims of sexual harassment, with ** percent of respondents in this age group claiming they had experienced it in a public place in the last five years. In comparison, only * percent of those aged 65 and over have recently experienced sexual harassment.

Nature of sexual assault by rape or penetration experienced by adults since the age of 16 years, including breakdowns by age, sex, victim-perpetrator relationship, location and other factors, based on findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).

This data was collected from two studies, one in Italy and one in Britain. Participants had the option to complete the online questionnaires in English or Italian. It contains measures of cognitive empathy, social dominance orientation (SDO) and tolerance for street harassment. The latter was measured before and after viewing a video of a female experiencing street harassment by males. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0AThe cognitive empathy scale was used to ascertain participants’ understanding of the women’s emotional responses. This scale is a 10-item self-reported questionnaire containing a 10-point Likert response scale, ranging from 1 (not at all) to 10 (very much). This is an adaptation of Fernandez and Marshall’s (2003) Rapist Empathy Scale, which measures people’s understanding that rape causes negative consequences for the victim. While Fernandez and Marshall (2003) used a vignette, these questions referred to the video watched during the survey. The common stem of the items was: “How much do you think the woman in the video was feeling”. Each item concluded with one of the following: “complimented, offended, proud, ashamed, self-confident, guilty, pleased, afraid, angry, and safe”. Responses to positive words were reverse-coded. Higher scores indicated increased cognitive empathy, with the assumption that street harassment is experienced as a negative experience. Cronbach’s alpha was .81 for the cognitive empathy scale across both U.K. and Italian samples, indicating high internal consistency and reliability.The SDO-7 scale (Aiello et al., 2019; Ho et al., 2015) is an adaptation of the original version by Pratto et al. (1994), an established and reliable scale predicting an individual’s preference for social group hierarchies and inequality. We used the more extended version containing 16 items with a 7-point Likert response scale, ranging from 1 (“strongly oppose”) to 7 (“strongly favour”). Eight items refer to social dominance, and eight refer to anti-inequality. Eight items are reversed coded to reduce acquiescence and extreme response biases. Higher scores indicate higher levels of SDO. Scores on items were summed. Cronbach’s alpha was .91 across both U.K. and Italian samples, indicating high internal consistency and reliability.The Street Harassment Tolerance Scale was modelled after the only attempt in the literature to measure one’s street harassment tolerance (Darnell & Cook, 2009), which in turn was patterned after Goodchilds and Zellman’s (1984) sexual aggression acceptance measure. Darnell and Cook’s (2009) scale was taken due to its good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = .94). This is an 11-item questionnaire containing a 5-point Likert response scale, from 1 (not at all acceptable) to 5 (very acceptable). In Darnell and Cook’s (2009) scale, all items begin with a common incipit: “How acceptable do you think it is for a man to make an unsolicited, unreciprocated, and unnecessary comment toward an unknown woman on the street (for example, saying ‘hey baby’ or ‘nice ass’) when”. Then, each item concludes with one of the following situations: the woman is attractive, the woman is dressed in sexy clothing (e.g., short skirt, tight clothes), the woman makes eye contact with him, the woman smiles at him, the woman is alone, the woman is with her friends, the woman is with a man, the woman is with her children, the man is alone, the man is with his friends, and the man is in an unfamiliar neighbourhood. In the present study, questions were slightly modified. The words “unreciprocated and unnecessary” were removed to avoid prompts. The last part was revised into “(for example, whistling and saying ‘hey baby’ or ‘nice ass’)” to capture a wider variety of street harassment behaviours. Higher scores indicated higher tolerance for street harassment. Cronbach’s alpha was .96 for the street harassment tolerance scale across both U.K. and Italian samples, indicating high internal consistency and reliability.

This statistic shows the results of a survey in 2017 in which females in Great Britain were asked which types of sexual harassment they had ever experienced. Verbal comments of a sexual nature were the most common form of harassment, with ** percent of respondents claiming to have experienced this in their lifetime. Only ** percent of respondents said they had not experienced any of the forms of harassment in the provided list.

This statistic shows the results of a 2017 survey in which female victims of sexual harassment were asked in which public places they had experienced sexual harassment over the last five years in Great Britain. The most popular response was in the street, with ** percent of respondents claiming to have recently experienced sexual harassment here. In addition ** percent of respondents admitted to having experienced harassment in a pub, club or bar, while ** percent are victims of workplace sexual harassment.

According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022, 39 percent of women who had been victims of online abuse, said that they had experienced cyberstalking. Additionally, 31 percent of female respondents stated they had been subjected to cyber flashing. Overall, men were more likely to have experienced online hate motivated by sexual orientation, with one in ten male victims of online abuse having been harassed in this way.

Audio of interviews with public campaigning political figures who want to be named and want their views to be known publicly. The interviewees were expressing their public political views and experiences with regard to unarmed neighbourhood watch schemes in Somaliland to prevent terrorist attacks, the global movement to prevent gender-based street harassment and the global citizen casualty recording movement to record the casualties of armed conflict.

This graph shows the instances of unwanted male genital exposure in the United Kingdom (UK), the results suggest that the majority victims who have experienced such an event are female. There is a ** percent difference between males and females who have experienced indecent exposure.

A survey on what women consider to be sexual harassment in Great Britain in 2020 showed that 97 percent of women considered a man trying to take a photo up a woman's skirt to be sexual harassment. Of the 12 examples of sexual harassment provided here, asking a woman out for a drink is the scenario seen by the fewest share of women as being harassment, at three percent.

This statistic presents the results of a survey which asked people in Great Britain their opinion on the #MeToo movement, as of 2019. According to data provided by Ipsos, ** percent of people surveyed thought that it had a positive impact on society.

This statistic presents the share of respondents who agree or disagree that nearly all instances of sexual harassment would end if the woman told the man to stop, in Great Britain as of 2018. According to data published by Ipsos, ** percent of respondents in Great Britain agreed nearly all instances of sexual harassment would end if the woman told the man to stop, whilst ** percent disagreed.

As of February 2025, approximately 75 percent of women in Great Britain thought that more should be done to achieve gender equality in relation to household responsibilities.

As of February 2025, approximately 71 percent of women in Great Britain thought that more should be done to achieve gender equality in relation to their being a gender balance in politics.

In 2020, the most common form of sexual harassment experienced by women in Great Britain was being commented on their attractiveness directly, with just under half of women advising they had experienced this. The next most common type of harassment was being wolf whistled at, with 45 percent of women having experienced this.

In 2024/25, there were 209,556 sexual offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, an increase when compared with the previous reporting year and a peak for this type of crime. Between 2002/03 and 2012/13 the number of sexual offences remained quite stable, but from 2013/14 onwards the number of sexual offences has risen dramatically.