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Sacramento Bee: Barbara Boxer continues crusade against workplace mistreatment of women

The Sacramento Bee reports:

WASHINGTON – Sen. Barbara Boxer says she never imagined how long she’d have to keep fighting to protect women and men in uniform from sexual assault.

It’s been more than 20 years since the California Democrat was elected to the Senate as an outsider pushing for change in how women were treated in the workplace and the military.

But Boxer said the string of shocking revelations of abuses in just the past month demonstrates that the problem remains pervasive.

“These tragedies are happening every day,” she said.

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