[DOC] [TLE] Frances Perkins - Wikipedia [PAR] Frances Perkins Wilson was an American sociologist and workers-rights 
advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the 
longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the .... 
As the first female member of the presidential cabinet, Perkins had an... [DOC] [TLE] Frances Perkins Center | Her Life: The Woman Behind the New Deal [PAR] Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve as a 
cabinet ... Frances Perkins was born Fannie Coralie Perkins in Boston in 1880, 
but her ... Union General Oliver Otis Howard, first head of the Freedmen's Bureau 
and .... to weed out the incompetence and corruption in the state labor 
department so... [DOC] [TLE] Frances Perkins - Civil Servant, Government Official - Biography.com [PAR] Apr 7, 2016 ... She was the first female to serve in the U.S. presidential cabinet. ... appointed her 
be to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first women to ... The family frequently 
visited her grandmother, Cynthia Otis Perkins, who had a strong influence on her. 
Her parents preached the ideals of hard work, conservative values... [DOC] [TLE] The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances ... [PAR] Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. Book Description Frances Perkins is no 
longer a ... As the first female cabinet secretary, she spearheaded the fight to 
improve the lives of America's working people while juggling her own complex 
family .... Housing prices had been pumped up by crazy new kinds of loans, and... [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Department of Labor -- Brief History of DOL - The Department in ... [PAR] He had already decided to place a woman somewhere in his Cabinet. ... Frances 
Perkins was well qualified to lead the Department during this crucial ... however, 
she first had to deal with a problem within the Department's Bureau of 
Immigration. ... into law, Perkins held a conference of labor leaders and experts in 
her office... [DOC] [TLE] 9 Most Influential Women in the History of Social Work - Blog | MSW ... [PAR] Mar 31, 2014 ... USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work Department of Nursing ... 
Social work is a profession that has seen many female pioneers make lasting ... 
Her book Social Diagnosis was one of the first social work books to ... Frances 
Perkins was the first woman to be a Presidential Cabinet member,... [DOC] [TLE] If You Like Social Security and Minimum Wage, Thank Frances ... [PAR] May 30, 2015 ... Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins shaking hands with steel workers in ... that 
the government should protect workers from unsafe and unhealthy work places. 
... year, Perkins attended a campus talk by Florence Kelley, head of the .... The 
first woman appointed to the Cabinet, proved her opponents wrong. [DOC] [TLE] Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal - Columbia ... [PAR] Today, it is the site of the Frances Perkins Center, created by her grandson, 
Tomlin Perkins ... Perkins as executive director of the Committee on Safety, which 
would work for ... She was the first woman to hold the role and oversaw 
thousands of ... office 12 years later, the only two cabinet members who had kept 
their posts for... [DOC] [TLE] Into the Woods: The First Year of the Civilian Conservation Corps ... [PAR] Roosevelt had previewed the CCC during the 1932 presidential campaign. ... 
had to work out a wholly new administrative apparatus and detailed policies. ... 
CCC Director Robert Fechner, standing right, joined camp director Capt. .... the 
idea over to the first woman cabinet member, Frances Perkins in the Labor 
Department,... [DOC] [TLE] Woman Behind New Deal | Video | C-SPAN.org [PAR] Mar 23, 2009 ... Kirstin Downey talks about her biography [The Woman Behind the New Deal: 
The Life ... ABOUT FRANCIS PERKINS, THE FIRST FEMALE CABINET 
SECRETARY. SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT WORKS AND ..... 
IN D.C. AND HE HAD WORKED WITH HER IN THE LABOR DEPARTMENT. [DOC] [TLE] ROLE

Question: As the first woman cabinet member, Frances Perkins, head of this department, had her work cut out for her
Answer: Labor