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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.
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∙ 15y agoFrances Perkins was Secretary of Labor for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, making her the first woman member of a presidential cabinet, in 1933.
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∙ 12y agoMargaret Bondfield, MP for Northampton 1923, Minister of Labour 1929
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Who is Roberta Harris?
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Who was the first woman to serve in Roosevelt's cabinet?
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Frances Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
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Who was your nations first woman cabinet member?
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