Frances Perkins was a principal architect of the New Deal.

As FDR’s Secretary of Labor (1933–1945) & the first woman to serve in a US cabinet, she was one of the most important figures shaping the New Deal’s landmark labor & social welfare programs.

She was born #OTD in 1880. (1/2)

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There are several excellent books about her available. She was a truly visionary and formidable woman.
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Perkins successfully championed:

+ 1935, Social Security Act: committee chair
+ 1938, Fair Labor Standards Act: first federal minimum wage, 40-hr work week & strictly prohibited child labor
+ Workplace Safety: spent her career advocating for the safety/health laws to protect industrial workers 2/2
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Just think what a woman could do as PRESIDENT.
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Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray is a serious detailed biography. It is also available in an audiobook.
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Women are under appreciated
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Mandated 8 hour a day, 40 hour work week (to the ever lasting stink of the rich), and made it stick.
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Also cracked down on child labor. She was revolutionary, a true fighter for the people, and deserves so many accolades, but few Americans even know her name.
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Where's the balance in your posts between wokosity & hatemongery? Aren't there an equal number of admirable women ghouls & racists?
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Went to Mount Holyoke (all women/trans)! There's a popular scholarship there for older students.
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Bryn Mawr. She went to Bryn Mawr.
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She was a remarkable woman.
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She was an eyewitness to the Triangle Shirt waist fire
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Time to put a woman in charge .
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She was a Socialist...and FDR knew that..

and Eleanor was the heart and soul of all the Anti poverty and civil Rights programs
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Oh no I'm crushing haaaaaaaaard on this dead straight liberal woman from 80-90 years ago
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