Elizabeth Warren says she's been treated differently in the Senate but won't say how

Elizabeth Warren says she's been treated differently in the Senate but won't say how

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she has been treated differently as a woman in Congress.

But unlike Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who opened up about her experience with sexism on Capitol Hill in a recent book, Warren — the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts — won't elaborate.

In an interview with CNN scheduled to air Wednesday, Warren was asked whether she had experienced treatment similar to what Gillibrand described.

"Yes," Warren said.

Would she care to elaborate?

"Nope," she said. "I've said all I'm going to say."

The 65-year-old Democrat, who is in her first term as senator, said she wasn't surprised to encounter sexism in the upper chamber, which is now comprised of 80 men and 20 women.

"It's hard to change these big, male-dominated institutions," Warren said. "What I am very happy about is that there are now enough women in the United States Senate to begin to change that place, and I think that's just powerfully important."

In her memoir published in September, Gillibrand revealed that some of her male colleagues in Congress felt free to comment about her weight.

“Don’t lose too much weight now," she said one "of my favorite older members of the Senate" told her, squeezing her waist. "I like my girls chubby!”

The 47-year-old did not reveal the names of her boorish colleagues in the book, but the New York Times reported that the "chubby" comment came from the late Hawaii Sen. Daniel K. Inouye.