Newsreel depicting the women's suffrage movement. In 1933, Frances Perkins becomes FDR's Secretary of Labor. She is conducting a radio address about the passage of Social Security. In 1942 Olveta Culp Hobby is sworn in Commander of the Women's Army Corps in WW2. She shakes hands with officers and addresses the audience about the Women's Army Corps. Three women in Army uniform are marching. One is carrying a US Flag. Shot of women in uniforms (skirts and blazers) marching. Dwight Eisenhower and his cabinet are sitting around a table. Ms. Hobby becomes the first head of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Shot of her smiling while men look on. She addresses the crowd about the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Clare Boothe Luce is looking at a map with a man dressed in a military uniform. She puts on sunglasses. CU of her smiling. Shot of Ms. Luce sitting at a table with numerous papers, picks up a telephone and smiles at the camera. Ms. Luce as Ambassador to Italy walking with a group of people. Children are waving small flags in welcome. Ms. Luce is at an Italian gathering. Children are smiling and clapping.