Women in Antarctica face assault and harassment, and a legacy of exclusion and mistreatment

A federal report that, in the words of its key finding, “sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking are problems in the U.S. Antarctic Program community”—and that efforts “dedicated to prevention [are] nearly absent”—drew attention around the world. But as a historian of Antarctic science, I did not find it surprising at all.


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Source: Phys.org