I'm a minority. My company has maybe around 30 Japanese working (sent from the mother company) as advisor in each department. Other than those 30, we only 3 other asians including me.
On the engineering side, there are so few women working. Overall, I think we only have 4 women engineers (2 are designers - so they are more on the office side). In my own group, I'm the only woman engineer, the baby of the group and the only one not married yet. So yeah, everyday I mostly work with men, hangout with them, sit with them for lunch, etc. Our office is different than the Central Office, so it's more relaxed and people stop by often to have discussion, etc etc. I'm 'trapped' in that room with those men and have to deal with all 'manly' stuff. They talk porn, they burp, they fart *really stinky*, they talk about girls with me around them....I learned to block voices from my surrounding but everynow and then, they asked me to cover my ears
Sometimes I have no idea what they're talking about and I'll ask...and most of the times those guys refused to explain it to me
I learned from those guys a lot. I learned how the guys think, how they see problems from different view, how they do things differently than us women, etc etc. We sometimes go out for dinner. Sometimes I organized a sport challenge with other departments. If I need help to fix my house, one of those guys will do it for me. I love them. I said it often, I'm the few lucky one because I love my job (sometimes I hate it though) and I love my coworkers. There are times we have to work 12-15 hrs a day...and I couldn't imagine doing it with people I don't like.