The Women’s March Was Just The Beginning

Senators Barbara Mikulski and Nancy Kassebaum wanted to wear pants. But unlike their male colleagues, they didn’t have that freedom in the workplace. Female senators had two choices: skirts or dresses, no exceptions. Then one day, Barbara and Nancy strode onto the Senate floor and brought that barrier crashing down. You’d be forgiven for thinking this is a story from the early days of the suffragette movement or a black-and-white newsreel. It was 1993. It took another 20 years for...