{"id":72328,"date":"2026-04-21T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/dozens-of-us-lawmakers-have-been-accused-of-sexual-harassment-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:55:01","slug":"dozens-of-us-lawmakers-have-been-accused-of-sexual-harassment-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/dozens-of-us-lawmakers-have-been-accused-of-sexual-harassment-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of US lawmakers have been accused of sexual harassment, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis finds 53 workplace harassment allegations against 30 lawmakers amid wave of resignations in Congress<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-three allegations of workplace sexual harassment have been made against at least 30 House and Senate lawmakers over the past two decades, an advocacy group said in a study that was released Tuesday amid a spate of ethics-fueled resignations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the lawmakers from 13 states and Guam who have faced allegations have since left office, but nine continue to hold seats, the nonpartisan National Women\u2019s Defense League (NWDL) said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/house-senate-sexual-harassment-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis finds 53 workplace harassment allegations against 30 lawmakers amid wave of resignations in Congress Fifty-three allegations of workplace sexual harassment have been made against at least 30 House and Senate lawmakers over the past two decades, an advocacy group said in a study that was released Tuesday amid a spate of ethics-fueled resignations in &#8230; <a title=\"Dozens of US lawmakers have been accused of sexual harassment, study finds\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/dozens-of-us-lawmakers-have-been-accused-of-sexual-harassment-study-finds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dozens of US lawmakers have been accused of sexual harassment, study finds\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}