>> sarah sandberg, the chief operating officer of facebook and marissa mayer, ceo of yahoo!. things are changing. >> female execs run h-p, xerox, avon products, and stl a victim of culture out there among women, achieving women? >> the whole victim mentality to me, it's a choice to be made, when someone is hurlingant g or racial epithets it's how do i take this energy and translate it on something positive? one quick example, on asian-americans in executive leadership, there are not many asian-americans in ceo. john: is it discrimination? >> other cultural factors affecting asian-americans'ability to rise through the corporate ranks of america. john: we tend to forget how different america was recently. just wasn't that gays couldn't get security clearances. 40 years ago women couldn't get a credit card without her husband's permission. good old days were not so good for women or blacks. when i was born black people couldn't attend the same schools or eat at the same lunch counter. now we have a black president. he's my president, even though he's wrong about most everything.