Why do women remain silent?

Why do women who experience sexual assault rarely speak up about it? "Because they fear they won't be believed," says Inés Hercovich. "Because when a woman tells what happened to her, she tells us things we can't imagine, things that disturb us, things we don't expect to hear, things that shock us." In this moving talk, she takes us inside an encounter with sexual assault to give us a clearer idea of what these situations really look like -- and the difficult choices women make to survive. (In Spanish with English subtitles)

Twenty-five percent of women will be sexually assaulted in their life times.
Dr. Ford needs to tell her experience for all the right reasons, including the fact she would never be believed when it occurred. She needs to expose the truth so other women can come forward when it happens to them. BUT. She needs to tell her experience to tell the justice system they are not empowering women to end the danger.

Twenty-five percent of women will be sexually assaulted in their life times. How many cases are reported and how many are acted on? The statistics don't even come close to 25%. When are women going to be safe? When are they going to be taken seriously when they say, "no?"