http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37025554

1st point: The report lost any claim to impartiality the moment it solicited the assistance of 'The Everyday Sexism Project', which has at its helm the infamous and male-friendly Laura Bates (detect the sarcasm). Excuse the crassness, but that's a bit like asking Adolf Hitler to conduct an investigation on the levels of anti-Semitism within the British Labour Party.

1,500 women - no men! - were surveyed.

Part of the problem with this is it's a tiny sample of people and, as we're given no indication as to what steps they took to compile the sample, how on earth do we know it's representative of the WHOLE population?

If it's literally pushed out to Everyday Sexism members, who have made some truly ridiculous claims in years gone by (none of which ever seem to be evidence, or reported to the police or authorities), then the report loses any remaining shred of credibility it had.

2nd point: The report offers two options: 'did you experience the harassment in the last 12 months, or more than 12 months ago?' The VAST majority of respondents report more than 12 months ago, ie, they are factoring in lifetime sexual harassment over a working career upwards of 50 years. You wouldn't think that reading through the BBC's coverage.

3rd point: The sexual harassment doesn't need to be directed AT the woman, it just needs to be within earshot. It doesn't even need to be a comment made about the woman, just a 'sexually inappropriate comment.' Apparently comments about 'clothes' are also factored in.

I'm not so much irked by the report but the manner the BBC presented it, and the prominence afforded to it. Yet another shameful indication of the inherent bias of the BBC (particularly considering they only cited the biased author of the report towards the end of the piece and allowed the user to interpret there has been an increase in 'sexual harassment.')