President Obama's conference on women got off to an awkward start Friday when Mr. Obama seemed to play on some throwback stereotypes about women lacking professional decorum in his opening remarks. "I was going to head over here earlier, and they said, no, no, this place is full of women and they're still settling down," Mr. Obama told the room. "I said, what do you mean settling down? What are they doing over there? Just creating havoc." It wasn't clear from his remarks who told the president to wait until the women had "settled down" before coming over to the...