President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed the first female cabinet-member, Frances Perkins, as US Secretary of Labor. She served from 1933-1945.
Frances Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
Francis Perkins (1880-1965) was the first woman in a US Cabinet, appointed as Secretary of Labor by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 4, 1933. She served until June 30, 1945.
Frances Perkins was the secretary of labor from March 4, 1933 to June 30, 1945 which the president at the time was Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins.
The Department of Labor. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor in 1933, and she remained in that office until the end of his presidency in 1945.
Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins, who was Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, was the first woman to serve in any president's cabinet.
Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to appoint a woman to his cabinet. In 1933 he appointed Frances Perkins to be Secretary of Labor. (The next president to appoint a women to his cabinet was Dwight Eisenhower in 1953.)Before that, she was appointed by FDR as New York's industrial commissioner when he was still the governor. She gained much respect in as a result of leading progressive reform and championing minimum wages and unemployment insurance laws.In the United States, Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the Cabinet. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor in 1933.
Frances Perkins
Frances Coralie Perkins was the first woman to be in the U.S. Cabinet. She was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945.