U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) surveys document a decline of more than 50 percent between 1987 and 2016 in the percentage of women working for the federal government who have been sexually harassed (narrowly or broadly defined) in the prior two years. This decline has been underappreciated due to the infrequency of USMSPB surveys and the delayed release of the USMSPB report based on the 2016 survey. The decline in workplace sexual harassment of women has taken place across all federal agencies and at all workplace gender balances. While, in 1987, there was a strong positive correlation between male predominance in the workplace and women’s report of sexual harassment, this association was greatly diminished by 2016. The formerly substantial gender divide in attitudes toward sexual harassment was also mostly diminished by 2016. By extrapolating the USMSPB surveys of federal workers to the entire U.S. workforce, I estimate that 4.8 million U.S. women were harassed at work in 2016 (using a narrow definition of harassment) and 7.6 million U.S. women were harassed at work in 1987 when the female workforce was substantially smaller. More than 700 women were sexually harassed at work in the United States in 2016 for every sexual harassment complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The observed decline in sexual harassment has implications for theories about law and social change.

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美国绩效制度保护委员会 (USMSPB) 的调查显示，1987 年至 2016 年间，为联邦政府工作的女性在过去两年遭受过（狭义或广义）性骚扰的比例下降了 50% 以上。由于 USMSPB 调查频率较低以及基于 2016 年调查的 USMSPB 报告的延迟发布，这种下降被低估了。所有联邦机构和所有工作场所的性别平衡都出现了工作场所对女性性骚扰的减少。 1987 年，工作场所中的男性主导地位与女性性骚扰报告之间存在很强的正相关性，但到 2016 年，这种关联性大大减弱。到 2016 年，以前在性骚扰态度方面存在的巨大性别差异也基本消失。将 USMSPB 对联邦工作人员的调查推断到整个美国劳动力市场，我估计 2016 年有 480 万美国女性在工作中受到骚扰（使用狭义的骚扰定义），1987 年有 760 万美国女性在工作中受到骚扰，当时女性劳动力小得多。 2016 年，美国每向平等就业机会委员会提出性骚扰投诉，就有超过 700 名女性在工作中受到性骚扰。观察到的性骚扰减少对法律和社会变革理论具有影响。

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