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The first crucial step towards addressing sexual harassment lies in its perception. The current research aimed to explore whether the relation between gender roles and sexual harassment perception was affected by perspective-taking (on victim or on perpetrator) and the victim’s gender (male or female) among Chinese men. The findings were from an experimental design, which included 426 heterosexual male participants, aged 18 to 72 years-old (Mage = 26.77). Participants completed surveys that assessed their gender roles and perceptions of sexual harassment after reading a randomly assigned sexual harassment scenario. Men with higher scores on masculinity were less aware of sexual harassment, and men with higher scores on femininity were more aware of sexual harassment. Participants’ perception of sexual harassment was significantly stronger when took perspective on victim than their perception when took perspective on perpetrator. In addition, the victim’s gender moderated the relation among masculinity, perspective-taking and the perception of sexual harassment. The findings highlight the importance of victim’s gender for the perception of sexual harassment and suggest that improving gender equality awareness is very necessary for enhancing the perception of sexual harassment in China.