"I sign this order not just as a president, but as a son, as a grandson, a husband and a father. I saw my grandmother work her way up to become one of the first women bank vice presidents in the state of Hawaii, but I also saw how she hit a glass ceiling—how men no more qualified than she was kept moving up the corporate ladder ahead of her."—President Obama, in front of a mostly female audience of activists and lawmakers in the East Room of the White House, during the ceremony to announce the formation of the White House Council on Women and Girls.