from society, and we see with wh the steubenville rape case for example, this is not a problem that is exclusive to the military, but i do find it a concern 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 crime in the military are much lower, just a very small fraction. so if the rate of sexual assaults is the same a essence f an society, it still shows that something is wrong. something is not working if the rate of that particular type of assault has not been driven down the same amount that other types of assault have been driven down within the military community. if i knew how to solve that, trust me i would. i don't. i hope that in the long run opening close combat arms jobs

units to women will drive down rates of sexual harassment and assaults because women will no longer by institutional definition be lesser troops. when they are able to do all forms of military service, that nobody will be able to say some of the things i heard when i was in, like why would you report sexual harassment? what did you expect when you joined a man's army? how are you going to ruin his career just because you can't take? hopefully when women troops are fully equal, that will improve, but research, other countries and other environments show that as women's equality increases that can be a temporary short-term spike in sexual assault. so something need to be aware of and just be forewarned about not saying it's okay, just saying if we start to see that we shouldn't say pull the plug, paul women out of interest rate -- infantry.

i am confident that the military, the army in particular is working very hard to set the stage for smooth and successful integration of women into closed jobs and the units. and that they're working very hard to drive down the rates of sexual harassment and assaults. but hopefully the military and universities can learn from each other because, unfortunately it is a problem that we see much more widely than just within the military. thank you. [applause] to all went into coming to help you will buy the book but remember when you get to some of the worst parts that this is a sort of hope, healing, recovery and love. and on that note, happy almost valentines day. [applause] >> kayla williams will be after signing copies of her books.

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