Facts and Figures

As part of the National Research Programme NRP 60 a study on sexual harassment at work was conducted throughout Switzerland. These were the results:

• Sexual harassment, above all potential sexual harassment, is part of everyday work life, concerning women as well as men.
• Initiators of potentially harassing behaviour are women as well as men.
• A good half of all employees - women as well as men – have been confronted with potentially harassing conduct at least once in their working lives.
• This concerns more women as victims than men in what is described as harassment in the law on equality.
• 31 percent of the women and 11 percent of the men in the German part of Switzerland have felt sexually harassed on occasion.
• It is mostly organisational factors which prevent or facilitate sexual harassment. This fact is in contrast to the perception of persons concerned and enterprise