I can't speak for women because my fondling cases happened to me when I was a little girl and I can tell you why I didn't tell anyone about it.
Two different older neighborhood men were both married men. One of them lured me with candy and his ability to metal coat baby shoes I guess even as a 5 year old I was attracted to artistic type things I know they fascinated me.
Then this man would show me these shiny things and give me candy tell me not to tell anyone and then touch me. I didn't know it was wrong because no one ever explained to me that it was.
The other man just two or three doors down from the candy man had a yard full of chickens and baby chicks another child magnet and since candy man had me trained second man was worse than candy man and exposed himself to me when thinking about it now I am horrified. I can also see where as an adult by my silence how it hurt my adult relationships with men.
I never told anyone as a child that this happened to me. Mainly because they coached me not to tell anyone. How did the neighborhood find out?
Evidently I was not the only little girl messed with and another girl said something to someone and the parents were warned and I could no longer go to these places.
Men with power or objects of interest as in power positions, money, respectable job positions can and have used it against women who have no power or level of importance to lord over them and then if they either refuse or blow the whistle at least in the past they are drug through the mud making them look like sluts, or jobs threatened, as in movie business black listed etc. So I can see why they would keep their mouths shut.
The reason for the pile on now is that they feel as though someone will actually listen now that they might actually be heard.
I was a 5 year old that didn't know any better because no one told me what these men were doing was wrong. By the time I was an adult I had learned that it was wrong and never allowed myself to be put in that position.
With adults it's much more a power and control issue. Strong and influential over the weaker party and it can be female or male.