https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3 By: Brandon Bivens, Brian Le en-us 2019-10-22 16:22:11 UTC 2019-10-23 07:31:06 UTC hello@padlet.com bjbivens100 https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3/wish/400974006 2019-10-22 16:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3/wish/400974006 bdle107 https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3/wish/400974577             Throughout history, women have been oppressed by men because they were considered weak and useless. However, when the Great Depression started and women started getting jobs, "hostility came from the women being hired outside of the homestead because the unemployment rate of men was equivalent to the employment rate of women."(Remy) Women were finally ready to prove their worth and take the burden of helping men, yet men were still against the wretched women who were stealing their jobs. Some even believed to “simply fire the women, who shouldn’t be working anyway, and hire the men. Presto! No unemployment. No relief rolls. No depression.” (Remy)
                Obviously this never occurred, which was good news because, women were finally getting their foothold in American society. They achieved jobs like: "nurses, school teachers, beauticians, cleaning ladies (maids/cooks), secretaries, and manufacturing occupations (sewing)."(Remy) Today, these jobs are considered the cliche women jobs, however during the time, women were happy to have any job whether they enjoyed these jobs or not. As well as the jobs, women also began changing their identity in society, like "women had the vote, education and divorce reforms and at least the right to be lawyers and MPs. Skirts got shorter and so did hair. Women smoked cigarettes, danced the jitterbug and – those who could afford it – drove motor cars."(Souhami) These seem like such small things most women take granted for, however women were only beginning the marathon to better lives for women, and equality altogether. 

]]> 2019-10-22 16:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3/wish/400974577 bdle107 https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3/wish/400974864           The Great Depression basically was the poorest economic period in American history. "The unemployment rate of men increased to 25%" which were assuredly low compared to previous years.(Remy) People across the country were losing their jobs, business were shutting down, and overall money was leaking and there was no one to fix it.
            Some were benefiting from the abysmal Great Depression, however, as a whole society, most were suffering. Even when the unemployment rate was lower than usual, the daily newspaper still included things like "...the actual number of unemployed in industry was brought to a new high level."(Unemployment) This was written during the Great Depression and was actually one of their positive articles in the newspaper, so one could only imagine what the negative articles would say. These little things in the article portray the tone of all the Americans during the Great Depression. With all the jobs being lost, no one could blame them for these negative articles.



]]> 2019-10-22 16:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3/wish/400974864 bdle107 https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3/wish/400975044 Racism played a big role during the great depression era. Although the  great depression occurred almost half a century after slavery had been abolished, ideologies associated with, derived from, or coexisted during the period of American slavery still flourish. Dynamics between and roles of different races still remained. An example is white southerners still depended on African-Americans and their work in cotton fields in order to sustain themselves. A supporting quote for a primary-source cartoon is, "150,000 negro workers leave southern states in year! Cotton supply imperiled" (Rogers). In his hand he is holding a lyncher's rope, which also represents a much more violent, dark, cruel, and unjust aspect of racism during the Great Depression. And because the African-Americans left, this also made them scapegoats of the Great Depression. Because of this, they were blamed for the national crisis.]]> 2019-10-22 16:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bjbivens100/msvhxa0q5iw3/wish/400975044