Women in the Depression Era

Posted on March 15, 2015 by ACurseen

Check Out this Site:  http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/great-depression/essays/women-and-great-depression

 

(Image by Dorthea Lange [1930s Female Documentary Photographer] from her Migrant Farm Worker series.  Check out the Site: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/dor12-113.htm)

Migrant workers particularly their children seen as “problems” in the nation.

Women take on new roles in society as a result of The Great Depression and exposure to the harshness of the west and the dust bowl.

[Possible places to look at ideas of monstrosity]

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One Response to Women in the Depression Era

  1. jlbaruch says:
    March 15, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    That was an interesting article and quite insightful when the author said: “To put it another way, no housewife lost her job in the Depression.” Despite a reduction in income when men lost their jobs, housewives micromanaged by rationing and budgeting to make sure the households survived the Depression.