Nancy Pelosi Suggests Calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Resign Are Sexist

Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) has suggested that sexism was behind calls by fellow Democrats for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), an 89-year-old woman, to resign due to poor health.
Feinstein has been absent from the Senate since February, when she was diagnosed with shingles.
Several House Democrats have called on Feinstein to resign while Pelosi on Wednesday put forward a rebuke of these voices, suggesting that sexism was at play.
“It’s interesting to me. I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Sen. Feinstein in that way. I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill….}