On Monday, the system worked.

Jurors found Harvey Weinstein , a disgraced media mogul who has been accused of assault or harassment by at least 100 women, guilty of sexual assault and rape . His verdict, along with that of comedian Bill Cosby in 2018, sends a strong message that the jurors are capable of believing survivors over powerful men. A legal process in which less than 1% of sexual assault cases lead to convictions sided with survivors over a millionaire whose sexual misconduct has been an open secret for decades.

It was empowering. But while Weinsteins guilty verdict is progress, it wont fix a deeply broken system.

Many experts and survivors told HuffPost they thought the conviction was important but ultimately, and unfortunately, symbolic. While high-profile cases help shift cultural attitudes toward sexual assault, that doesnt always change how the legal system treats average victims whose cases may not get the widespread media attention, the high-profile legal representation or the support of multiple accusers that the Weinstein trial did.

In the end, the fact that Weinstein will likely be put behind bars is not going to fix the systemic problems with the way that survivors are treated by society and by institutions, said Mar Lee, a sexual assault survivor and advocate for Title IX reform.

A high-profile conviction just says that, in this case, there was enough to convict this person, said Leigh Goodmark, the director of the gender violence clinic at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. But it doesnt make any grand pronouncements for me about the systems friendliness to people whove been raped and sexually assaulted.

Weinsteins Case Isnt The Norm

Weinsteins case doesnt represent what happens to most victims. The accusations against him are extreme both in number and in people willing to testify against him. Lee worried that cases like their own, which involved being sexually assaulted by another student, would continue to be dismissed.

Many sex crimes lack physical evidence and multiple witnesses who can also testify to the abuse, said Jody Clay-Warner, a sociology professor at the University of Georgia who has studied rape reporting reform. And even if the perpetrator has assaulted more than one victim, its difficult to find an army of survivors in cases where the media isnt documenting every detail of the case.

Is this going to make the more common case of a woman on a college campus whos raped by a date decide that she should go forward? Clay-Warner asked. I dont think so.

Though Weinsteins victims were white, women of color are sexually assaulted at the highest rates. These survivors dont often get the level of attention that Weinsteins victims did and are often left out of the Me Too movement.

There is silent, everyday violence and suffering committed against women that just dont meet the threshold of public interest, said Aya Gruber, a law professor at the University of Colorado.

And Harvey Weinstein going to jail isnt going to do anything for them.