Even being a white tenured scientist recognized in my field, I still have humiliating encounters that make me wonder what it’s like for other women in #academia and wider professional life. In 2015 in did fieldwork in a very remote locality. An older scientist from my field, staying separately there with a different campaign, spent the bigger part of the night trying to get to my room through the door and the window, shouting about the sexual fantasies he’d had about me. Next day in the field he undressed completely in front of me and his own student (also a woman) to swim in a lake and invited us to join. I’ve managed to avoid him for years but now to perform a professional role I had to spend a few days in his company, dinners and all. At the same professional occasion, another senior male professor, walked on me using the bathroom. It was a ladies bathroom, the lock didn’t work, and he didn’t knock. He allegedly did it because the men’s bathroom was occupied: no wonder since the meeting consisted 80% of men. No, he didn’t apologize. On my way back I hit my head on the luggage rack on the plane and a random dude in his fifties stroked my head. He tried to show pity but he basically stroked my body as if it was a public object. All these things are small but add up: i cannot show discomfort at a harasser without consequences to my career, my privacy and personal space are breached. Not every woman will keep going to conferences as these experiences accumulate.