Gender. Popular wisdom suggests that women disclose more than men, yet research on this issue is mixed at best. What is clear, however, is that both men and women more easily reveal private information to a woman than to a man. 8 Perhaps this is especially true when a young girl is sexually abused by an older man. As one female victim explained why she chose to tell her mother, “She’s my mom and she’s a grown-up, you know, and she’s a girl.”