# Understanding the Silence of Sexual Harassment Victims Through the #WhyIDidntReport Movement

## TL;DR

This study analyzes 40,000 tweets to understand why victims of sexual harassment choose not to report their experiences, categorizing reasons and examining social engagement patterns.

## Contribution

It provides a large-scale supervised analysis of reasons for non-reporting of sexual harassment and categorizes these reasons in detail, enhancing understanding of victims' perspectives.

## Key findings

- Identified common reasons for not reporting sexual harassment.
- Categorized reasons into detailed subgroups.
- Compared social engagement patterns with existing literature.

## Abstract

Sexual violence is a serious problem across the globe. A lot of victims, particularly women, go through this experience. Unfortunately, not all of these violent incidents come to public. A large portion of victims don't disclose their experience. On the September of 2018, people started revealing in Twitter why they didn't report a sexual violence experience using a hashtag #WhyIDidntReport. We collect about 40K such tweets and conduct a large-scale supervised analysis of why victims don't report. Our study finds the extent to which people shared their reasons as well as categorizes the reasons into finer reasons. We also analyze user engaged with the victims and compare our findings with existing literature.