Word: labors
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...elected to the House of Representatives. In 1931, Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (this was obviously not a time when a woman could opt merely to keep her own name) became the first female U.S. Senator. Frances Perkins led us into the White House when she was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman cabinet member...
Albright's appointment is a new step for women. Considering a woman capable of handling issues of labor, education or health is different than depending on her to preserve our reputation and strengthen our abilities as the world's superpower. While much of Albright's work will involve economic foreign policymaking such as promoting the advantages of NATO and negotiating new treaties on trade, this is not the realm in which the selection of a woman is so mind-breaking. I am not suggesting that economic issues are light, requiring little strength or intelligence. The point is merely that there...
More than 50 Yale students were arrested this week along with Connecticut Secretary of State Miles Rapoport and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney during a protest supporting two labor unions engaged in a contract dispute with Yale University...
Police estimated that approximately 1,500 people including workers, clergy, labor leaders and students took part in the five-block march which began at the New Haven city hall Tuesday...
...protesters criticized the university's stance in dealing with the labor unions...