but i'm here to live my life i'm not here to be pushed around by people who are being idiots dr kate clancy an assistant professor at the university of illinois recently published a study and if the statistics basically say that the number of women in the workforce or are being sexually assaulted more that statistic is going up and this is just yet another obstacle for women to have to face in a male dominated workforce and a male dominated vironment like this stem jobs so does this problem deserve a thoughtful response and kind of similar to the way that organizations are trying to encourage young girls to apply themselves in science technology engineering and mathematics so partially it's there but a lot of it is also of the nature of the industry of academia it's all about your networks the people you've worked with you need them particularly early career to boom your own credibility and if you that they do something to you you want in a position of power sure you could you could take it you could push something. but when you suddenly lose your collaborators. they can ruin your career ev