Sexual harassment in the military
Between 2012 and 2017, the MOD recorded a further 363 allegations, of which 282 were referred to the police.

United States: Since 2014, surveys of US military personnel have found a high prevalence of sexual harassment. The following rates refer to the proportion of women reporting that they had experienced harassment in the previous 12 months.

2014: 21.5%
2016: 21.4%
2018: 24.2%
In the same years, 5–6% of servicewomen said they had been sexually assaulted in the previous 12 months; rates at initial training centres were found to be substantially higher.
In 2017, the Department of Defense reported that an estimated 14,900 military personnel were sexually assaulted in 2016, of whom 6,172 made an official complaint.
In the same year, the Department reported that an active duty military woman who reported sexual harassment to a superior was 16% more likely to be sexually assaulted than one who did not report, while a man who reported increased his chance of sexual assault thereafter by 50%.

See also: Sexual harassment
Wartime sexual violence
Military sexual trauma
Sexual misconduct in the British military
Sexual assault in the Canadian forces
Sexual assault in the United States military
Sexual assault in the Japan Self-Defense Forces
2022 JSDF sexual assault incident
Misconduct in the military
Suicide in the military
Women in the military
Children in the military
Dedovshchina (hazing ritual in the Russian military)

References: 

Further reading: Crowley, Kacy; Sandhoff, Michelle (2017). "Just a Girl in the Army". Armed Forces & Society. 43 (2): 221–237. doi:10.1177/0095327X16682045. S2CID 151623237.

External links: 

Research: British armed forces: Rutherford Report, 2006; Army sexual harassment reports: 2015, 2018, 2021; David Gee, The First Ambush? Effects of military training and employment, 2017 Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine
Canadian armed forces: Dechamps Review, 2016; Arbour Review, 2022.
French armed forces: La Guerre Invisible, 2014
US armed forces: Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office

Testimony and recent reportage: Rachel Thompson (British army), 2017 [video]
Lara Whyte for The Times: "I was sexually assaulted in uniform. I can't get over it", 2021.
Lara Whyte for The Times: 'Tenfold rise in rapes and sexual assaults on girls in military', 2021.
Lara Whyte for Vice World News: 'Teenage girls serving in British army report record levels of assault', 2022.