Researchers find that nearly all women who have sexual relationships with someone who had a position of authority over them (e.g., boss, professor) report it had a negative impact on them.
Most also come to see those relationships as abuses of power—no matter how they felt at the time.
Feb 3, 2026 20:18There’s always some discourse about “consensual” relationships within power hierarchies, but people are overwhelmingly talking about coercion.
The women themselves are extremely clear that these relationships are fraught at best and traumatic and discriminatory at worst.
