Lauren Lemer graduated from college in 2010. She was looking for a job and wanted to work in the banking industry.

So the economy wasn't great, but I was lucky enough that I had a few different job opportunities.

I ultimately thought, you know, I'll probably learn a lot quickly at the FDIC given the type of exposure I'll have to a myriad of banks,

you know, banks were still failing. So that was the thing that I thought was most interesting was, you know, that sort of breath of experience that the FDIC offered.

The FDIC is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

It's a government agency that monitors banks.

Lauren was excited when she landed a job as a bank examiner in training at a field office

in California.

The job meant Lauren would be traveling a lot.

She soon learned that those work trips could often involve hard partying. And sometimes, Lauren says, the vibe from some male colleagues was off.

It was very easy to extrapolate it to excuse things that were just frankly unprofessional as as nothing more than you know

maybe somebody hitting on you and you rejected them. And you didn't want to say anything because you would be labeled as sensitive or hey you got to toughen up.

So it was very much like you either fit in or you don't and

and so much of that was around like the thickness of your skin.

Lauren would get comments about her looks, speculation about her sex life.

Once, she was invited to a strip club by other bank examiners.

Another time, she got an unsolicited naked photo from a colleague.

And on one work trip to Dallas after drinks at a bar,

a male coworker followed her.

You know, once we got into the hotel, he got off on the same floor as me and then just

kept following me as if there was some unsaid thing.

You just think like, oh my God,

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