Maine Governor Janet Mills, center, is greeted by fellow female politicians on the steps of the State House in Augusta Tuesday afternoon for a photo op. (Sun Journal photo by Russ Dillingham)

This Sunday: As Women’s History Month begins, staff writer Bonnie Washuk and photographer Russ Dillingham take a look at the sea change in the role of women in Maine state government. New Gov. Janet Mills — Maine’s first female governor — calls it “a phenomenon whose time has come.”

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