Its LGBT History month at my work. We also have the Women's Annual Conference, a

[Peter]

You should have said yes and opened with something like. "Afternoon girls. From the number of you here I can see that there's a lot of housework not getting done today."

That'd get a laugh.

I made a similar remark about two years ago at a management meeting. Someone asked, quite innocently, what went on at the women's conference and got a series of jokey responses from the women about make up, housework etc. Twenty minutes later we were discussing the kitchen facilities in the offices and the fact that people kept leaving them in a dreadful mess. When the Chair asked what we should do about it I suggested referring it To the women's conference for further discussion.

I was still dealing with the fall out from that joke about 3 months later......