I hate this crap.

Sadly, the Geosciences have always been a boy's club.

Many years ago, I worked for a major mining company. Our work was pretty minor to their spreadsheets, a backwater, a wildcat operation they threw some money at for a tax write off.

But every year, the big wigs would come to town, or out to the field to check up on us and have a vacation and some per diem.

Our team was six people, four guys, two women.

On one of these visits, after a long day of presentations, the big wigs decided that an after-dinner trip to a strip club was in order. Our female co-workers were not invited, of course - but I was.

I told my boss that I was not interested in going to a strip club.

He told me, and I'll never forget it, that it would be good for my career with the company if I went. There was also the tone that it would be bad for my career with the company if I did not go watch women be objectified.

So...

I didn't go.

And I did not have a career with that company.