Impact on women from the new deal?

Answer 1

The First New Deal featured five key measures. One of which was the founding of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). This program was rather helpful, but not to women. The CCC put to work 2.5 million young men to work, generally disregarding women. Other federal agencies would put more preference on men than women. The First New Deal, in a way, set about putting women back into domestic services. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) set up camps specifically for young women that taught them household skills. Women did benefit however from the First New Deal, but in a different way than men. Women were employed by the FERA for relief projects, putting them to work producing canned goods, mattresses, and clothes for needy families. Women were also employed as housekeeping aids, maintaining the common stereotype of women as domestic servants. Women of minority groups were hit harder than white women. They found it more difficult to find any decent paying work. They were also generally excluded from the new laws passed to ensure worker safety. Men even started finding their way into traditionally women held jobs, such as teaching.

Come the Second New Deal, women were beginning to enter into the Federal government. Thanks to Roosevelt, Frances Perkins was elected to serve as the head of the Department of Labor. Perkins then hired on other females in the field. Although there were still no women working in the CCC, about 500,000 did find employment through the WPA. Despite this, they were still paid less than men. Of course, this was due to the NRA codes for industries that had a large number of female workers setting the minimum wages of women lower. Although Eleanor Roosevelt was a positive role model, the perception of women in the 1930s did not change much from the stereotypical housewife view.

Answer 2

no