Question: In what year did the position Barbara Franklin held as secretary become its own department ?

text: List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries
Female Secretaries -- Current departments
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was the first woman to hold a Cabinet-level position . Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris was the first African-American woman to serve in the Cabinet . Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao was the first Asian-American woman to serve in the Cabinet . Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was the first Hispanic woman to serve in the Cabinet . Numerical order represents the seniority of the Secretaries in the United States presidential line of succession .
The United States Cabinet has had 32 female officers. No woman held a Cabinet position before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920, which prohibits states and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the Cabinet; she was appointed Secretary of Labor in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Oveta Culp Hobby became the second woman to serve in the Cabinet, when she was named head of the then newly formed Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1953. This department was subdivided into the departments of Education and Health and Human Services in 1979. Patricia Roberts Harris, who was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare before the department split and had earlier served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1977, became the first female Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1979. Harris was also the first African-American woman to serve in the Cabinet. Former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole is the first woman to have served in two different Cabinet positions in two different administrations. She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Secretary of Transportation in 1983, and was the Secretary of Labor during the tenure of George H. W. Bush - Reagan's successor. Czechoslovakia-born Madeleine Albright became the first foreign-born woman to serve in the Cabinet when she was appointed Secretary of State in 1997. [a] Her appointment also made her the highest-ranking female Cabinet member at that time. [b] Condoleezza Rice was appointed Secretary of State in 2005, and thus became the highest-ranking woman in the United States presidential line of succession in history.
# Secretary Position Year appointed Party Administration
1 Madeleine Albright * Secretary of State 1997 Democratic Bill Clinton
1 Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State 2005 Republican George W. Bush
1 Hillary Clinton Secretary of State 2009 Democratic Barack Obama
2 - Secretary of the Treasury - - -
3 - Secretary of Defense - - -
4 Janet Reno * Attorney General 1993 Democratic Bill Clinton
4 Loretta Lynch Attorney General 2015 Democratic Barack Obama
5 Gale Norton * Secretary of the Interior 2001 Republican George W. Bush
5 Sally Jewell Secretary of the Interior 2013 Democratic Barack Obama
6 Ann Veneman * Secretary of Agriculture 2001 Republican George W. Bush
7 Juanita M. Kreps * Secretary of Commerce 1977 Democratic Jimmy Carter
7 Barbara Franklin Secretary of Commerce 1992 Republican George H. W. Bush
7 Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce 2013 Democratic Barack Obama
8 Frances Perkins * Secretary of Labor 1933 Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt
8 Ann Dore McLaughlin Secretary of Labor 1987 Republican Ronald Reagan
8 Elizabeth Dole Secretary of Labor 1989 Republican George H. W. Bush
8 Lynn Morley Martin Secretary of Labor 1991 Republican George H. W. Bush
8 Alexis Herman Secretary of Labor 1997 Democratic Bill Clinton
8 Elaine Chao Secretary of Labor 2001 Republican George W. Bush
8 Hilda Solis Secretary of Labor 2009 Democratic Barack Obama