Frances Perkins
Title
Frances Perkins
Subject
Governance
Description
First woman to be appointed to the US Cabinet--as the Secretary of Labor, no less, in a time when wage work was considered outside woman's sphere
Creator
Amy French
Source
Image: Wiki Commons
Birth Date
1880
Birthplace
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Death Date
1965
Occupation
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Biographical Text
Perkins was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945; she was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. Perkins championed the labor movement by overseeing New Deal legislation that safeguarded labor unions, established pensions, thwarted child labor, and ensured a minimum wage and a maximum work week.
Bibliography
Keller, Emily. Frances Perkins: First Woman Cabinet Member. (Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2006).
Pasachoff, Naomi. Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal. (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Perkins, Frances. The Roosevelt I Knew. (Penguin Group, 1946).
Frances Perkins Center: http://francesperkinscenter.org/
Lecture by Frances Perkins: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/lectures/FrancesPerkinsLecture.html?CFID=32089813&CFTOKEN=87545756&jsessionid=f0303f8dc2238566af60247d1a173f85b692
Columbia University Oral History on Frances Perkins: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/perkinsf/index.html
- Date Added
- June 10, 2014
- Collection
- Leadership/Governance
- Item Type
- Person
- Tags
- department of labor, first female Cabinet member, new deal
- Citation
- Amy French, “Frances Perkins,” Women Who Dared, accessed March 29, 2024, https://womenwhodared.omeka.net/items/show/24.