L'histoire secrète des femmes au sénat américain

Jusqu'en 2008 la piscine du sénat était réservée aux hommes parce que des sénateurs aimaient s'y baigner nus. Portrait d'une institution qui quitte lentement le Moyen-Âge. Et la référence n'est pas sympathique pour le Moyen-Âge...

 "Yet some indignities have nothing to do with a lack of accommodations.

Debbie Stabenow, a veteran lawmaker, recalls meeting with a senior agricultural lobbyist several years ago, when she was chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee and shepherding the massive farm bill.

As they were talking in her office, the lobbyist, an older man, reached over and patted her hand. “I know it’s going to be tough,” he assured her, “but you’ll do the best you can.”

 “My blood pressure went up about 20 points,” Stabenow remembers, tension rising even now, long after the farm bill made it through to passage."

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/senate-women-secret-history-113908.html?hp=t4_r#.VKxziSuG81I