Newsweek’s report comes just weeks after new research revealed that nearly two thirds of young British women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.

After surveying over 1,500 woman, researchers found that 52% had experienced “unwanted behaviour” at work, including inappropriate jokes, sexual advances, and groping.

Despite the shocking nature of the results, however, the prevalent nature of sexual harassment in the workplace is nothing new.

In 2013, a report from the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) focused their attention solely on female journalists, and found that almost two-thirds of women in the industry had experienced intimidation, threats, or abuse in the workplace

“It is shocking to see that more than half (64.48%) of the 822 women journalists who responded to our survey have experienced some sort of ‘intimidation, threats or abuse’ in relation to their work,” said Elisa Lees Muñoz, Executive Director of the IWMF, at the time.

Hannah Storm, the Director of the International News Safety Institute, added: “When we talk about safety for the media, we often think in terms of staying safe in war zones, civil unrest and environmental disasters, but how often do we think of the office as a hostile environment?”

However, while many confirmed that the experience of intimidation had affected them psychologically, the majority of those harassed did not report what had happened to them.

This reluctance to report harassment was attributed to the ever-changing nature of the media industry – and the lack of job security in the journalism world.

Female journalists share their stories of sexual harassment: “I wore my belt inside out so it was harder to remove”