Experts point to bystander intervention as a way to fight sexual harassment. They say it may even be more effective than traditional harassment training, which uses videos and quizzes that research shows are focused on companies trying to avoid legal liability in place of effective prevention. Supporters of bystander intervention say it targets the norms around harassment and empowers bystanders to step in when they witness bad behavior.

As one of few women in an executive role at The Honest Company, the actress turned entrepreneur admits "it's tough when you're the only woman in the room." She's working to empower more women so they, too, can get a seat at the table, she tells CNN's Poppy Harlow in a new podcast episode of Boss Files. Women make up 65% of The Honest Company's 400 employees. However, only three of nine executives there are female, including Alba. "I just felt so alone," says Alba, reflecting on being one of the only women in a leadership role during her early days at the company.

"For the second year in a row, we see women hitting the glass ceiling much earlier than we traditionally thought. That has an impact on the entire pipeline. We're losing so many women at that critical step up. And on average, they never catch up."

"It is really easy to individually dismiss them because they do seem small, but the idea is that these are 'death by a thousand small cuts,'" Bennett says. "There are large problems we need to deal with as well, but if you want to have a more equal workplace, we need to attack this from both the macro and the micro level."

across the Arab world. About 90% of them are women. Tarjama offers women the chance to stay home, working from laptops and choosing their shifts to fit around other commitments.