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Academia. Not an industry, but still a field of professional activity.

This is absolutely true.

And Susan Fowler said academia is more sexist than tech. Which one is more liberal? https://twitter.com/susanthesquark/status/880949030900989953...)

When I worked at a large bank we had mandatory classes in the company values, and adherence to the values was explicitly measured in annual appraisals.

It's just American and silicon valley tech. Not world-wide.

Game development, though that's still tech. The cause may be that these fields are mainly formed of young Americans who have recently been through the marxist training camps known as university.

Arguably politics is a profession. Just look at recent elections in the US and the UK to see how nasty it can get.