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Regardless of whether it's an illusion - if it is an illusion, it's a compelling one, to the point that you can't be perfectly confident in it being illusory.
You should, logically, at least try to carry out change by your own hands, because the alternative is to potentially squander whatever autonomy you may have.
It'd be like standing at an unlocked door, but being so convinced it's locked, that you don't even give a good try at turning the knob.
How we perceive choice does affect behavior but it's one of a myriad of things and how you perceive choice isn't a choice either. Change occurs without requiring choice, even change by ones own hands. Nothing is squandered if it never existed. We will still behave and our behavior will cause changes, but it isn't a choice how we behave. So any sexism, in the system of behavior we are all a part of, is a product, not a choice.