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themselves to the point where they could go into such fields. But in my childhood there were women doctors and they were not oddities. They were very good people. They were very much respected. There weren't a great many of them, because very few women had had the opportunity for so much education as would be required to be doctor. I do recall one or two women who were lawyers, though not very many.

The fact that Wilson, Harding and Coolidge did not appoint women to a high Cabinet post does not mean that it wasn't a possible concept. It was a perfectly possible concept in Wilson's day, in Coolidge's day and even in TR's day. It wasn't practically necessary. They were not urging themselves. They were not pressing themselves. They didn't vote so that they hadn't come to the attention of politicians as being among the groups that had to be thought of when parceling out appointments. Suffrage came in Wilson's day, but he was already heavily involved in appointments. However, it would have been a possible thing to have a woman Cabinet member. He might so easily have appointed Mrs. Harriman then. He knew her well. He admired her. He liked her. He might so easily have appointed Mrs. Harriman to be ambassador to Denmark or Norway in that time. It could have been and it would have been well received - with some surprise, of course, but not completely unthinkable.