Tina Fineberg/Associated Press Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, right, at an event last month called Getting Women Off the Sidelines.
WASHINGTON undefined As a girl, Kirsten E. Gillibrand learned about politics from her grandmother, Dorothea Noonan, a secretary in the New York State Legislature who defied the norms of her day and organized other women into what became a formidable political club in Albany.
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