I just returned from my annual pilgrimage to the windy city for a radiology conference / trade show. They like to call it "technical exhibits" instead of a trade show - whatever.
Three days of booth duty, my clients and fellow booth staffers were all men. Every significant visitor to the booth was a man (save one, the product VP from a subsidiary of one of our customers, who stopped by not because she was a direct customer, but because she went to college with one of the people staffing the booth). Three client dinners out - all men except for one spouse who came along.
Last year Zippy dropped by the show one day, to walk around and see it all, and he commented how intimidating it was to be around all these businessmen in suits. There are women there - mostly radiography techs, applications folks, and booth support (reception, marketing, etc), but just a small percentage of the radiologists, administrators, and sales persons were women.
It's a weird thing. And I imagine some trade shows (machine tools, automobile, etc. ) are even more male-dominated.
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