see more

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)

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)

see more

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)

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)

see more

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)

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)

see more

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)

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)

see more

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)

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)