The man is a sleazeball of the lowest rung, and there's certainly a massive power differential between her station and his - he can propell or hinder her career. But if your mental arithmetic in a situation where a creepy old shitmonger is sliding his hand up your leg results in "I'll stay and ignore in order to make the deal", you've got some fundamental issues. This isn't victim-blaming, this is pointing out that when her brain saw an out and refused to take it because being sexually harrassed was an acceptable sacrifice for a deal. I understand that a lot of women have grown up with certain notions of what they have to deal with when it comes to men. But this girl wasn't born in the 60s. She was born maybe, what, early 90s? What kind of parenting or societal feedback does one get where you grow up to see avoidable sexual harassment as an acceptable bargaining chip in career advancement?
I feel bad for her but not because of the experience alone, perhaps more so because she didn't (and perhaps even now doesn't) see that she made a judgment call to sacrifice self-respect for career advancement. In computer speak, that's a kernel-level issue...