Women get on with it.
Lynn Martin, former Secretary of Labor, was particularly astute and funny, and gave the most pointed and useful advice of the event. She told listeners that, at her first White House Cabinet meeting, sitting there among the national male power elite, she badly wanted to do something useful, like pour coffee. Men simply do not understand what they are doing, so they will never fix themselves without your help and guidance. But, never whine, she smiled. When sexism rears its head, rotate chairs, change everyone's behavior.