I'm quite curious about how sexism affects the broader tech industry as a whole, as it seems to not affect my niche area much at all. I work in ASIC design, an

I'm quite curious about how sexism affects the broader tech industry as a whole, as it seems to not affect my niche area much at all. I work in ASIC design, and we have probably even fewer women than software development. In general, I have never had the impression that sexism is much of a problem in our narrow little field. But since I'm male, I thought that perhaps I was blind to the problem. So I asked a female colleague, and she said she had never experienced any sexism on the job, period. Now, we're a small company, and I like to think we're a pretty progressive, decent bunch, so no surprises that she's never seen it internally. But we're also a professional services company, so we work with many clients, big and small, and we don't control their hiring process. But no - she's never experienced any sort of sexual discrimination at work with clients, either. I've not been able to come up with a plausible explanation of why the problem does not seem to affect us in the same way that it might in a different sub-field.