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UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: Frances Perkins Member Of The Industrial Commission Of State Of New York Usa Around 1928 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
American politician Frances Perkins (1882 - 1965), who became the first woman cabinet member in 1933, when President Franklin D Roosevelt named her Secretary of Labour. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)
Frances Perkins - U.S. Secretary of Labor - at the construction site for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. 5th April 1935. Photograph. (Photo by Austrian Archives/Imagno/Getty Images)
1938: American social reformer and politician Frances Perkins (1880 - 1965), the Secretary of Labour in Roosevelt's cabinet, arriving in Plymouth aboard US liner Washington en route to Geneva. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)
December 1943: Secretary of Labour Frances Perkins (1880 - 1965) greets President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) upon his return from the Tehran Conference. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)