Push to honor trailblazing woman who spearheaded New Deal with monument

Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, was labor secretary under FDR

Joe Biden has been asked to designate a national monument to the former US labor secretary, Frances Perkins, by members of Congress and groups including the National Park Conservation Association.

Perkins, who served three terms under Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, was the first woman to be appointed to a presidential cabinet and the longest-serving secretary of labor in US history.