20 Female Senators: 4 Surprising Facts They Show About Women And Work
On Thursday, 20 women were sworn into the senate -- four more women than have ever served in the Senate in the entire history of the country. The winds of change were roaring in the U.S. Capitol, promising a future of greater collaboration, of more compromise, and of hearings on birth control that might actually allow a woman to speak.
In a group interview, Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) told ABC's Diane Sawyer that parents would bring their daughters up to her during the campaign and ask, " 'Can we get a picture? Can we get a picture?' Because people realize it and -- things do change, things do change."
But were the paths of these torchbearers at all different from those of their male colleagues? And does their ascent signal any larger change for politics, women and work? To better understand exactly what this change will look like, AOL Jobs took a closer look at our crop of female senators:
