The U.S. Antarctic research program is rife with sexual harassment and assault, according to a report released last week.
. Commissioned by the National Science Foundation , which manages the program, and written by an external firm, the report also found that those working in Antarctica largely don’t trust their employers to take harassment complaints seriously, to protect victims, or to punish perpetrators—and that some groups are less aware of the issue than others.
The report—which is based on interviews and focus groups as well as anonymous survey responses—doesn’t attempt to quantify the extent of the sexual misconduct in the program, but it offers some stark anecdotal accounts. “Every woman I knew down there had an assault or harassment experience,” one interviewee is quoted as saying. “I can’t in good conscience encourage more women to come down here as it is right now,” said another.
“The report is more shocking than I expected,” says Helen Fricker, a professor at the University of San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography who studies the Antarctic ice sheet. She went to the continent herself earlier in her career and has sent students there more recently.
In 2013, NSF instituted a Polar Code of Conduct, which expressly prohibits “physical or verbal abuse of any person, including, but not limited to, harassment, stalking, bullying, or hazing of any kind.” The consequences for violations can include removal from Antarctica.
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