“The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered...”

About Frances Perkins

Public Servant • American

Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest-serving in that position. As the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet, she was a key...