It usually takes up so much of her time that she cannot get a spare minute to smoke nearly anything. Phyllis is the nexus of everything taking place in Mrs. America, but each episode also spends time with 1 or two other critical women on the opposite facet of the movement, from Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne) to Betty Friedan (Tracey Ullman) to the initially black female to operate for President, Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba).