Men also victims of sexual harassment in workplace

Men are also victims of sexual harassment in the workplace a new university study has found, but women still far outnumber men as targets for unwanted sexual attention and bullying.

The study found more than one in ten complaints about sexual harassment came from men reporting sexual harassment from other men. Another five per cent involved men complaining of being sexually harassed by women. Six per cent of complaints came from women reporting harassment from other women.

The vast majority – 78 per cent – of complaints were from women reporting the behaviour of men in the workplace.

Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology examined hundreds of complaints about sexual harassment lodged with state and federal equal opportunity commissions.