The investigation took nine weeks. I kept working. I did not see Anthony. He was put on what the firm called "administrative leave" three days after I filed the complaint. The firm interviewed every woman who had ever worked on Anthony's team going back five years. They found four — four — additional women who came forward with stories. Two of them had left the company. One had been gently passed over for promotion when she "became difficult.

" One was still there and had, it turned out, also been keeping a file. She and I had coffee in week six of the investigation, and she cried when she realized I had done it, because she had been waiting, she said, for someone younger than her to go first. I was promoted in week seven. Anthony was fired in week nine. The firm did not issue a statement. His LinkedIn now says he is "pursuing opportunities." I know, from a woman who works at the firm he tried to join, that two HR departments have informally flagged him. He has not been hired anywhere.