"This is a Man's World..."

"But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."

James Brown isn't exactly who pops to the forefront of everyone's minds when talking about sexism in the workplace, but I could have played that song on loop a couple of weeks ago after a visit from a particularly rude person to our place of business.

As I'm sure we all know, the cryogenics industry is definitely dominated by men.  But, as a young, college educated woman in the 21st century, I did not think much about sexism in the workplace.  I had thought that it was something that employee handbooks and company policies had to cover, but was pretty much a de-facto non-issue.  Perhaps I was being naive, or perhaps it has something to do with my blood relation to my boss, but I just didn't think discrimination based on gender would be a problem for me.  Boy, was I wrong.