Question

What was the significance of Frances Perkins’s role in the Roosevelt administration?

Answer 1

She was the first female cabinet member.

Answer 2

She was the first woman named as a member of the US Cabinet.

Step-by-step explanation:

Frances Perkins, registered at birth as Fannie Coralie Perkins, was a US sociologist and politician, who served as Secretary of Labor for the United States between 1933 and 1945, and was a member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cabinet. She was the first woman to assume a position of ministerial rank in the USA.