Year in Review Science & Society

The #MeToo movement shook up workplace policies in science

New research seeks to better understand how sexual harassment affects women

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SPEAKING OUT  U.S. college students have called out sexual harassment (a 2017 protest at Boston University, shown). 2018 saw institutions take action.

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