Great Depression Impact on Women by Anneliese Duong (Student FVHS) https://padlet.com/aduong107/lmybh55lx0yt Myla Chi, Anneliese Duong en-us 2019-10-22 16:21:34 UTC 2019-10-23 00:15:07 UTC hello@padlet.com How did the effects on men and women differ as a result of the Great Depression? aduong107 https://padlet.com/aduong107/lmybh55lx0yt/wish/400974196 When the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, both men and women faced negative effects despite the huge gap in their gender that created their differences at the time. However, married women are shown to have encountered more issues than expected because of the multiple headlines. On the positive side, 24% more women in the United States were employed through 1930 and 1940. Rather than men’s jobs that were ruined due to this depression, women’s jobs that were not touched by the stock market were much more available for occupancy. Susan Ware says, “Some of the hardest-hit industries like coal mining and manufacturing were where men predominated,” (Rotondi). Due to this crash, the problem targeted towards men’s occupations which supported the rise of “women’s work.” 

However, marriage rates continued to decrease through 1939 and 1949 meaning that women without spouses had to make money alone. Despite this fact, numerous jobs were offered toward women, such as, “nursing, teaching and civil service for white women, while black and Hispanic women were largely constrained to domestic work, according to David Kennedy’s 1999 book, Freedom From Fear.” (Rotondi). Overall, it is evidently proven throughout this period that men faced brutal hardships that opened several opportunities to women when president William Green supports by stating, “The check in the rate of increase may be due largely to efforts to keep men at work.” (Unemployment Rate...)

]]> 2019-10-22 16:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aduong107/lmybh55lx0yt/wish/400974196 How did women increase discrimination in this time? mchi100 https://padlet.com/aduong107/lmybh55lx0yt/wish/400979020 When the Great Depression hit, money was greatly lost from the rich and the poor. They faced problems such as taking care of their family or business. However, women stepped up and led a huge role in society. They began taking jobs such as teaching, nursing, office work, and domestic service which was not as much of a role. Society perceived them as a threat though because at this time, they had a lower status than men. Under the Works Progress Administration, women were confined “to fields like sewing and nursing that paid less than roles reserved for men” (Rotondi). During this time, it seems that the government was incredibly biased towards men, but women only got jobs to support their families but got further discriminated in the process. 

In addition, “Section 213 of the Economy Act of 1932 included a section that required the government to fire one member of each married couple working in government” (Blackmore). This was obviously the objective for the government since they received many complaints about women taking over jobs. Ultimately, the one who would be fired would be the wife. Due to the evidence shown above, it is proven women increased discrimination by the laws/acts given. 


]]> 2019-10-22 16:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aduong107/lmybh55lx0yt/wish/400979020 TKM research notes and works cited list aduong107 https://padlet.com/aduong107/lmybh55lx0yt/wish/400986368 2019-10-22 16:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aduong107/lmybh55lx0yt/wish/400986368 What change did women encounter during the Great Depression? aduong107 https://padlet.com/aduong107/lmybh55lx0yt/wish/400987723 During this insane time period, women’s chances for new jobs arose as their class in society may have been respected a bit more too. This monumental incident gave society an unexpected turn of events by giving them hopes of different opportunities. In The Pathfinder, the author supports the idea of brand-new opportunities for women because of this depression when they say, “The government’s figures showed that:... There are nearly twice the number of women operating their own businesses as there were in 1910.” Rather than cooking the food and cleaning the house as they were thought to do, women’s roles changed when their jobs were not as affected as mens’. 

Even though this spiked an uprising for women, they also encountered some money issues too. After the stock market crash caught their attention, marriage bars were then put into place. These stopped married women from getting jobs and supported the idea of giving unmarried women the worst-paying ones. (Blakemore) Unfortunately, this would not come to be incredibly surprising when an article says, “...businesses had been banning married women from work since at least the 1880s.” (Blakemore). Compared to men, this gender was not treated the same way and presented with equal advantages. Therefore, womens’ appearance of taking professional jobs was absolutely special on top of the restrictions being put on them. Altogether, women took a good part out of this horrible depression but also began some chaos regarding marriage bars.

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