The Depression did little to alter the role of women in the American workplace. According to the 1930 census almost eleven million women, or 24.3 percent of all women in the country, were gainfully employed. Three out of every ten of these working women were in domestic or personal service. Of professional women three-quarters were schoolteachers or nurses. The 1940 census did not post dramatic changes in the numbers of working women: thirteen million women, or 25.4 percent of all women over the age of fourteen, worked. The greatest numbers of women continued to work in domestic service, with clerical workers just behind. Out of every ten women workers in 1940, three were in clerical or sales work, two were in factories, two in domestic service, one was a professional-a teacher or a nurse-and one was a service worker. Women in the 1930s in fact entered the workforce at a rate twice that of men-primarily because employers were willing to hire them at reduced wages. In unionized industries, however, women fared better. Women constituted 7 percent of all workers in the automobile industry and 25 percent of all workers in the electrical industry. The integrated International Ladies Garment Workers Union had 200,000 members and secured for pressers in Harlem high wages of $45 to $50 per week. I'M SMARTER THAN YOU you copies that off of enotes smartie
taboos for women in 1930s
Young women fled into the growing industrial cities, seeking jobs and opportunity. These women discovered they could escape there.
there were no women
Yes most likely a job where they did t have to do much work because in order to be a flapper you ahead to have time to afford the clothes and drink and smoke in the clubs late at night
they had farming
Because of no jobs
Fearing competition for jobs, menm argued that women were justb temporary workersmwhose real job was at home. Between the 1900s and 1930s, the patterns of discrimination and inequality for women in the business world were established.
no. no they didnt.
absolutely nothing besides farming and most of the house work!
Women have always worked - running the home, raising children, etc. It's hard work, too. If you mean did women work outside the home in jobs for which they were paid, yes, they did. Teachers, doctors, lawyers, factory workers, cleaners, maids, cooks - all the jobs that women do today, although not in such great numbers as today.
It created jobs for women
yes