1.Research question: How is sexual assault influenced by gender inequality?2. Social Significance: This issue is important as the government is responding to a series of high-profile sexual assaults, including rape, on college campuses. In the article I read in the New York Times, the government created a task force that established guidelines. The report that contains the guidelines emphasizes the confidentiality of sexual assault reports because sometimes, if a victim believes the report will be made public, they will not file a report and the abuser will never be arrested. The task force also found that many adult prevention education efforts were not helpful. It recommends that instead of prevention training, programs be in place to train bystanders to intervene.3. Literature Review: To help answer my research question, I selected these two books:3a. Summary: Marshall researched the causes of sexual assault by examining many factors such as social and cultural variables. The role that social customs play in our society has received much attention due to the different hypotheses presented about the relationship between social interaction and sexual assault. Studies show that societies in which rape is common have important and unique social factors. Some of these cultures are characterized by patrilocality, the wife must reside with the groom's family and not her own, as well as high levels of feuding. Some social customs include raiding other places for wives, using physical violence to obtain land, the idea of ​​male harshness and female inferiority, a general negative view towards women and war. Some of these characteristics appear in modern society, for example...... middle of paper ......n focuses more on the male side and what they do wrong, how we live in a society patriarchal where men are expected to be better and maintain their power over women. My conversation with women supports both of these points. The man in the situation was exactly as Hagan describes, women were not equal to man in the workplace and he thought he could dominate her because he was more powerful than her. This also supports Marshall's view that the woman was just a secretary and not doing administrative work, she was allowing herself to be inferior whether she realized it or not.7. Conclusion: I find that both men and women are at fault when it comes to sexual assault. Men should not dominate and control women since they were born from a woman's body, and women should not allow themselves to be dominated; they should pursue these well-paying administrative jobs.