# @rutgersu on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSQxYTr-Z7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/182549-rutgersu-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-03-11T16:35:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rutgers University (@RutgersU) — https://gondola.cc/RutgersU

## Caption

At age 20, Ida L. Castro became the youngest, and only, woman on the City Cabinet in Carolina, Puerto Rico. ⁣
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She also was the first Latina named to the New Jersey Commission on the Status of Women and tenured as an associate professor at Rutgers’ Institute for Management and Labor Relations. From 1994–96, Castro was deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, where she earned two Hammer awards for efficiency in government. ⁣
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In 1998, she became chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—the first Latina to head the nation’s top civil rights agency. Three years later, she became director of the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Vote Center. ⁣
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And, in January 2002, she became the first Latina commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Personnel, a position she held until she resigned in 2007 to become the Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights at CUNY School of Law.⁣
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Check back each week as we are commemorating and encouraging the study, observance, and celebration of the vital role of Rutgers women for #WomensHistoryMonth 🌟⁣
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#RutgersPride #RutgersExcellence⁣

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rutgers University | @RutgersU | https://gondola.cc/RutgersU | University |
| Marques Ruiz | @digitallysober | https://gondola.cc/digitallysober | Social Media Manager |
| Marques Ruiz | @digitallysober | https://gondola.cc/digitallysober | Copywriter |

## Tags

rutgerspride, womenshistorymonth, rutgersexcellence

## Events

women's history month | rutgers u 2021

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