how many Americans in the opinion poll of 1936 object to women working?
82%
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how many states tried to ban women working?
26 but this was declared unconsitutional
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What did the National Recovery Administration do to help indirectly women?
reduced working hours, banned child labour, established legal right of women to belong to a union
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what did the social security act do?
introduced welfare to poor families
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when was the Aid to dependant children act passed?
1935 - it gave single mothers help
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how many women did the WPA employ in 1936
460,000 women which was 1/3 of the unemployed in 1933
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what did women do in the WPA?
women hired for school lunch programmes of the WPA and they made clothing and bedding to local hospitals
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What did the Fair Labour stadards act 1939 do?
new minium wage which helped some women
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what was the minium working weak set to?
48 hours
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What was the name camps that giave employment to women
She-She-She
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how did the IRA help women in 1934?
gave women work as domestic workers and steamstresse/john collier encouraged women to peruse as an economic venture
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when was the federal ban on birth control lifted?
1938
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even though the legilsiation indirectly impacted on women, how did they influence it?
much emerged as a result of their proposals by social workers and reformers of the 1920's
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Why was FDR's admin important for women?
FDR employed more women in senior positions than any other admin until the 1960's
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What did Eleanor Roosevelt hoste in 1933?
white house confernce on the emergancy needs of women at th white housing bringing attention to womens issues
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what else did Eleanor Roosevelt do help womens during the GD
ensured FERA had a special womens division with a full time women employment in each state to organise programmes to directly help women
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who was Florence Allen?
First female appeal court judge
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What was Francis Perkins appointed as in 1933
first female cabinet minister and labour sectarty of industrial board of NY - longest serving labour sectreary ever
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What was Mary Mcleoud Bethunes role?
Joined FDR in 1936, coordinator of his black cabinet, director of National Youth Administration
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why was the new deal limited in terms of attitude towards women?
based on the assumption men were the main bread winners so government should be focused on them
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what was still the preaviling social norm?
women to give up her job, it was unsual for both men and women to have a job in the WPA
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how many of the jobs created by the civilian works progress administation went to women?
7%
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why was new mininum wage so ineffective?
didnt apply to female dominated areas such as domestic service and retail
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why did black and hispanic women benefit least from the new deal?
social secirity act excluded domestic workers and agricultiral labourers
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what % of families still lived at or below subsistance level?
42%
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why did this effect poor ,younger women?
many had to leave their homes as not enough money to feed them
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what was the limiation to birth control?
although ban lifted in 1938, some states continued to forbid it
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why was this a problem for working class women?
often had to resort to illegal abortion due to the lack of unaffordable contraception
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why did francis perkins achieve so little despite being labour secertary
male polticals and businessmen were still hostile to the idea of women gaining poltical power and she was less interest in womens rights
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what was the attitude of the National recovery administation?
men were more of a priorty than women
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Conclusion on new deal?
Gains for some women politically but most in extreme poverty and still had the attitude that women were less important than men - women themselves accepted this
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
how many Americans in the opinion poll of 1936 object to women working?
Back
82%
Card 3
Front
how many states tried to ban women working?
Back
Card 4
Front
What did the National Recovery Administration do to help indirectly women?
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