There’s a great scene from the first season of MadMen where Don wants to fire Pete Campbell and Bert Cooper tells him he’ll need a stronger stomach if he wants to be in the kitchen and see how the sausage is made. If you demand a seat at the table, you are going to get some bumps and bruises taking the seat. What matters is that you are at the table.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/ketanji-brown-jackson-black-women.amp.html