A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy ...

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, center, wears a steel helmet during an inspection tour of the San Francisco tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, in California, March 25, 1935.

Frances Perkins was America’s first female member of a presidential cabinet, serving as the secretary of labor throughout Franklin Roosevelt’s 12-year presidency. Her legacies include the 40 ...

Frances Perkins served as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945. Library of Congress. The country ... After Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, he asked Perkins to be Secretary of Labor.

FILE - Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins chats with reporters in New York, Nov. 27, 1945, as she arrives from Europe aboard the Queen Mary, after she headed the American Government's ...

FILE - Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins chats with reporters in New York, Nov. 27, 1945, as she arrives from Europe aboard the Queen Mary, after she headed the American Government's ...

FILE - Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins chats with reporters in New York, Nov. 27, 1945, as she arrives from Europe aboard the Queen Mary, after she headed the American Government's ...