The Pew Charitable Trust has issued this report on Internet Harassment. Women age 18-24 are the target of far more severe forms of harassment like  sexual harassment and stalking. Young men are slightly more likely to be physically threatened (26%), but 23% of young women have received physical threats, compared to 8% of all social media users.

The summary of the findings tells us that “Harassment—from garden-variety name calling to more threatening behavior— is a common part of online life that colors the experiences of many web users. Fully 73% of adult internet users have seen someone be harassed in some way online and 40% have personally experienced it, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.”

“Young women, those 18-24, experience certain severe types of harassment at disproportionately high levels: 26% of these young women have been stalked online, and 25% were the target of online sexual harassment. In addition, they do not escape the heightened rates of physical threats and sustained harassment common to their male peers and young people in general.”