 So, in the project Mapping the Female Perspective of the Leaky Pipeline, I wanted to investigate what is it like to be a woman in academia, specifically here at Ahrouz University. I wanted to know why do some female researchers decide to leave the academic career track. And so, I interviewed 25 women who had already left or were in the process of leaving the university. And what I found was that the vast majority referred to the work environment as a key factor in their decision of leaving the university. For some, it was institutional pressure such as a high teaching load, publication pressure and continually being employed in temporary positions and lost not knowing whether one would be able to support oneself and one's family in the future, but many described a very unpleasant psychosocial work environment. So, stories revolved around loneliness, health effects due to stress. There were stories of a general lack of respect for each other as colleagues and there were stories of merciless competitiveness.