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Eleanor Roosevelt spoke out, both privately and publicly, on a variety of issues. Though she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1930s (believing that women needed special protection at work), she was, nevertheless, a powerful force for women's rights. Many historians credit President Roosevelt's appointment of the first woman cabinet member — Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins — to his wife's influence. The first lady worked for children's rights, showed compassion for working people and the unemployed, and promoted civil rights. "I always looked at everything from the point of view of what I ought to do, rarely from what I wanted to do," she once commented. Beginning in January 1936 she wrote a syndicated newspaper column, My Day, in which she put a human face on many of the pressing political issues of the day.
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