“The announcer labeled the Boy Scouts the ‘future leaders of America,'” wrote Speyer, “and he said the Girl Scouts were ‘just having fun.'” She found this comment “very patronizing,” and asked the editor to “help [her] let other people know how much this kind of thing happens and how bad it is,” noting that the announcer’s language is an “insult to girls and women of all ages,” which is “not OK at all.”

In her “Is It Gender Bias, Or Do I Just Suck?” Twitter thread, which so far has racked up nearly 500 retweets and 1,500 likes, Choo applies her title question to a series of confounding experiences, like being asked to wait out a promotion so that a male colleague can advance first, or being talked over, or getting stuck with housekeeping-type duties at the office while men get tapped for leadership roles or appointed to influential committees.

Apologizing for breathing, taking up space, and doing just about anything besides sitting in demure servitude is a skill many women share. As countless studies have proven, women apologize far more frequently than men do, largely because men are socialized to believe they have far less to apologize for.

“For the men here: Someone may pull you aside in your first week at work and tell you that you should never being alone with a woman. You know they’re wrong. You know how to work with people in all settings and behave respectfully. So give them advice instead. Tell them that they have an obligation to make access equal, that if they don’t feel comfortable having dinner with women, they shouldn’t have dinner with men. Group lunches for everyone.”

Women in comedy are having a moment. But spend five minutes watching Issa Rae on Insecure, Ali Wong in Hard Knock Wife, or Samantha Bee on Full Frontal, and it becomes clear that their comedy isn’t just about getting laughs—it’s also a full-scale rebellion. Where do women like this come from? And how can we raise a new crop of young women like them—girls confident enough in themselves and their humor to not just poke, but power-drill, holes in world’s most powerful institutions?

Barra encourages people to find mentors in the people around you who you respect, and not necessarily seek out the highest profile person within an organization. She also says you don’t need one definitive mentor. “Mentorship can be, I’m talking to this person today, and that person tomorrow,” she says. “You can also learn a lot from the people you don’t respect. If you look around you and you say, ‘OK, this is not the kind of leader I want to be,’ then ask yourself, ‘What is that leader doing that you want to make sure you don’t repeat?'”

When asked what men can do to improve women’s lives at work, Mary Barra gets straight to the point: “Stop making assumptions.” As chief executive at General Motors, Barra practices what she preaches. Her management philosophy is epitomized by GM’s workplace dress code—which is equally brief, and also an antidote to the restrictive, wallet-draining policies at many large corporations. It reads, in full: “Dress appropriately.”

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield says Slack is pioneering products that will provide individual Slack users with data on whether their digital communication changes when they speak with people of different demographics. He says this data will help promote more equal, inclusive workplace cultures, and make employees more efficient and effective.

When Currano entered the workforce, she immediately faced gender bias. “It’s little things adding up—death by a thousand paper cuts,” she told Quartz reporter Katherine Foley. “You’re sitting in a faculty meeting, and you have an idea and everyone ignores you, and then your male colleague says the same thing and it’s the most amazing idea.”