And herewith, a nod to 49.556 percent of us

At the Fairmont for Nancy Pelosi’s DCCC Ultimate Women’s Power Luncheon on Monday, Sept. 24, 800 women and a few men were — against the backdrop of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, as well as ongoing fights about a woman’s right to choose, health care, #MeToo revelations and the simple fact that only 19 percent of the members of the House are women — ready to roar.

Emcee Renel Brooks-Moon, true blue to the Dems as she is to the Giants, began by quoting Oprah Winfrey (“A new day is on the horizon!”); that welcome was followed by eight one-minute pitch speeches by candidates from around the country.

The mood was perhaps best expressed by Angie Craig, running for a seat in Minnesota. Craig had run against the same Republican opponent in 2016, said Rep. Zoe Lofgren in her introduction, and lost by “a whisker.” One percent, said Craig. “The difference between 2016 and now is that this time I am pissed.”

Pretty obviously, it wouldn’t be Pelosi playing the piano that was on the stage, but everyone was surprised — to understate it — when Carole King came out, started with a “shout-out to the men who love and support women,” sang and played “You’re Beautiful,” “One” (which she ended with “Won”) and “You’ve Got a Friend.” By the time she finished, with the crowd singing along, the music had done its feel-good magic, and the crowd was high.

Direct references to the man in the White House were sparse. But Pelosi’s forceful citation of the Constitution’s first passages, establishing checks and balances, and her citing the words of

Ronald Reagan about immigrants being essential for the constant reinvigoration of America pretty much pointed a finger.

Hillary Clinton didn’t mention him, either, but got the biggest response of the day when she said, at the end of a list of goals, that Democrats were for “reuniting children with their families.” The task, she said, is to “show the world and most importantly ourselves what American leadership and American values look like. Let’s go win.”

The 15th anniversary party for the Women’s Audio Mission, on Friday, Sept. 21, at the Brava Theater, had a more than festive purpose. Reception revels — food and drink, the timbre of wine-fueled conversation — were followed with performances by St. Beauty, Diana Gameros and Chulita Vinyl Club ... and a specific pitch.

WAM was founded by Terri Winston, an electrical engineer, performer and tenured professor at City College, who, upon realizing that fewer than 5 percent of sound industry professionals were women, set out to change that. WAM has been working with 1,500 women and girls a year, providing hands-on training, work experience and career counseling, and pointing the way to STEM careers.

Engineer Winston likes to quantify: 96 percent of WAM participants are from low-income households; 73 percent have no home access to a computer or mobile device; 89 percent have never touched a musical instrument. And after WAM training, more than 700 of its 14,000 participants have gone on to jobs with Google, Pixar, Dolby, ESPN, Sony and more. (Dolby, Pandora and Meyer Sound were the major benefit supporters.)

“The girls are not just seeing themselves” as having audio engineering careers, says Winston, “but as being the bosses. ... They take ownership of that word ‘engineer.’ ” Most of this training has taken place in its Natoma Street professional recording studio, “the only one in the world built and run by women,” says Winston. That studio has been used for recording by Alanis Morissette, the Kronos Quartet, Angelique Kidjo, Radiohead, St. Lawrence String Quartet and Salman Rushdie.

When Winston took the stage at the Brava, she got a rock star’s applause. Her program has been so successful, she said, that she is planning trips to Boston, Los Angeles and New York to preside over pop-up studios and gatherings, sowing seeds for similar programs.

And now to the cause: At the beginning of September, in cooperation with Oakland Unified School District, WAM opened an outpost in Oakland. Three weeks later, more than 400 young women were enrolled. The Oakland facility does not have full studio facilities; it needs equipment and permanent space.

WAM is dreaming of serving 3,000 trainees a year by 2020. Winston was nervous, she said, as the girls and women — and men, too — gathered. The San Francisco mortgage paid off, this fundraiser was for Oakland. By evening’s end, $180,000, “well beyond our goal,” said Winston, had been raised.

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