Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military: Highlights from the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study

Abstract

In early 2014, the Department of Defense (DoD) asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute to conduct an independent assessment of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military. The resulting study, the RAND Military Workplace Study (RMWS), invited close to 560,000 active and reserve-component service members to participate in a survey fielded in August and September of 2014, making it one of the largest surveys of its kind ever conducted for DoD. More than 170,000 service members completed the survey. Compared with prior DoD studies, the RMWS takes a new approach to counting individuals in the military who experienced sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the past year.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA615680

Entities

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Crime
  • Criminals
  • Department Of Defense
  • Discrimination
  • Education
  • Gender Discrimination
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Operations
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Public Policy
  • Sex
  • Sexual Assault
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Social Problems

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.