get urinary tract infections. the fact that it is in a supply chain, apparently anyone camping is familiar with. some of those problems have been addressed. the military saw some gaps and worked to address them. when women are integrated into close combat arms unit, those applied personnel needed digital training not affect these things exist but those are out there. a lot of problems women face in the military are not exclusive to women but disproportionately affect women, the most well-known example is sexual assault in the military. the women are small minority in the military. the raw numbers of those experienced in the military may be roughly equivalent between men and women so again that is a

problem that disproportionately but not exclusively affects women. the military is struggling as hard as college campuses to figure out what to do about that and make a dent in it and encourage reporting, increase rates of successful prosecution, drive down the initial incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment. it is the $64 million question in my sense. the military draws its members from society, and we see with the steubenville rate case, this is not a problem that is exclusive to the military, but i do find it concerning that if you compare rates of nonsexual assault, murder and other violent crimes within the military to those in a comparable civilian population, rates of other crimes in the

military are much lower. a very small fraction. if the rate of sexual assault is the same as in civilian society it still shows something is wrong. something is not working if the rate of that party to the type of assault has not been driven down the same amount of other types of assault have been driven down within that military community. if i knew how to solve that, trust me, i would. i don't. i hope that in the long run, opening closed units to women will drive down rates of sexual harassment and assault because women will no longer, by institutional definition, be lesser troops. when they are able to do all forms of military service, nobody will be able to say the things i heard like why would you report sexual-harassment, what did you expect when you joined the man's army, how will

you ruin his career, do you think you can't take it? hopefully when women troops are fully equal that will improve. the research from other countries and other environments shows that as women's equality increases there could be a short-term spike in sexual assault. something we need to be aware of and can be forewarned about not saying it is okay but if we start to see that, pull women out of the infantry, sometimes you have to work through a difficult process. i am confident the military, the army in particular, is working very hard to set the stage for a smooth and successful integration of women into closed jobs and units and that they are working very hard to drive down the rates of sexual harassment and assault but hopefully the military and universities can learn from each other. unfortunately it is a problem that we see much more widely

than just within the military. thank you. [applause] >> thank you all once again for coming. i hope you will of course by the book but remember when you get to the worst parts, this is a story of hope, healing, recovery and love. on that note, happy almost valentine's day. [applause] >> kayla will be appear signing copies of her book. if you don't have one they are still available. thank you. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations]

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