Trainees are being abused by senior male surgeons, a major analysis given to the BBC reveals.

Sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape have been referred to as surgery’s open secret.

There is an untold story of women being fondled inside their scrubs, of male surgeons wiping their brow on their breasts and men rubbing erections against female staff. Some have been offered career opportunities for sex.

The analysis - by the University of Exeter, the University of Surrey and the Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery - has been shared exclusively with BBC News.

Nearly two-thirds of women surgeons that responded to the researchers said they had been the target of sexual harassment and a third had been sexually assaulted by colleagues in the past five years.

Women say they fear reporting incidents will damage their careers and they lack confidence the NHS will take action.

  • yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    But they didn’t say that? They said ‘men are terrible’ is included in the phrase ‘people are terrible’ because men are people.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
      212·
      1 year ago

      Except they did, insisting on saying “people are terrible” instead of “men are terrible” is not only pretending people of other genders are part of the problem when they’re not but is

      essentially saying “not all men”

      Not that any of this will stop you from continuing to try to derail the conversation instead of just accepting that this is a problem with men, no matter how uncomfortable that is for you to deal with.

      • yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
        31·
        1 year ago

        Yes, in this case men are absolutely to blame, I am not denying this.

        I believe they intended their comment as a general statement not specific to sexual harassment/assault. It felt like a fatalist response, not as an attempt to derail the conversation.