When Barbara Mikulski arrived in the Senate, all the podiums were built for men… and so was Washington’s power structure. So she changed it. In this episode, Mikulski and three of her female Senate colleagues look back at Anita Hill’s testimony and the 1992 elections that followed it, the last “Year of the Woman.”

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