Yes. Research on sexual harassment in the academy suggests that it remains a prevalent problem. In a 2003 study examining incidences of sexual harassment in the workplace across private, public, academic, and military industries, Ilies et al (2003) found academia to have the second highest rates of harassment, second only to the military. More recently, a report by the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) summarized the persistent problem of sexual harassment in academia with regard to faculty-student harassment, as well as faculty-faculty harassment. To find more evidence of this issue, one can also turn to Twitter – as Times Higher Education highlighted in their 2019 blog.
In 2019, the Association of American Universities surveyed 33 prominent research universities and found 13% of all students experienced a form of sexual assault and 41.8% experienced sexual harassment (Cantor et al., Citation2020).
Mainstream academia is not free from sexual abuse.
Mainstream academia?
A bit of searching brings me to https://elephantinthelab.org/sexual-harassment-in-academia/ :
Another paper suggests:
Mainstream academia is not free from sexual abuse.