When Anita Hill told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 that she had been sexually harassed by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, she was received skeptically by an all-male panel and a Senate chamber with only two female members. Dianne Feinstein, then a candidate for the Senate, joined a crowd watching the hearing on a television in London’s Heathrow airport and was stunned to witness a committee of men publicly grilling a woman on such a sensitive issue.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 17, 2017 12:00 UTC