Senate roll call sexism in the 21st Century

I have brought this subject up before, but not for a long time. I have trouble watching Senate procedures on C-Span because of the roll call sexism. The women are referred to as "Mrs. Clinton" and "Mrs. Boxer," rather than "Ms. Clinton" and "Ms. Boxer." It has now been several decades since we stopped discriminating against women in the area of honorifics, but apparently, no one has told the U.S. Senate.

To make matters even worse, the honorific "Ms." is used for an unmarried senator or a senator who uses her family name instead of her husband's name, e.a. "Ms. Landrieu." Which puts us, more or less, back where we used to be before the 70's. Why, oh, why do the female Senate Democrats (and the female Senate Republicans who claim to be feminists) allow this to go on?

I know the standard "liberal" response to my complaint: "The country is in an illegal war, the Constitution is threatened, the economy is sinking. We have much bigger fish to fry."

Depends on how you look at fish. I believe that language will always be the biggest fish in our culture, or in anyone's culture. What does it say to us when the premiere law-making body of the nation insists on announcing the marital status of its female members when no other major institution does? And what does it say that the women don't seem to care?