when roosevelt is president, he brings frances perkins to be the first woman to be a cabinet secretarye's secretary of labor and here's how you see it. one very persistent woman backed up by millions of people and what do they get done? social security, the minimum wage, unemployment insurance, the end of child labor, the very existence of the weekend, the right to join a union. it was a transformative moment that took two things, the fight from the outside and the fight from the inside, the leadership from the inside. we had that opportunity now. and too many people say it's just too hard, we can't do it. but think of it this way here in america, we've engaged in big structural change before. we did it then the suffragettes that were told too hard, give it now, right the foot soldiers in the civil rights movement, too hard, give innow. the early union organizers, too hard, give up now. the lgbtq activists, pabarely a decade ago, too hard, give up now. but they didn't give up. they got rganized, they built grassroots movement, they persisted and they changed the course of american hist