Women in the Great Depression

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In this article, the writer discusses that history often neglects or misrepresents the role played by women during the Great Depression. An examination of this period in this paper, reveals that this is a grievous error. The writer maintains that in fact, women were indispensable as heads of families, as laborers, and even as professionals during this time.

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"The Great Depression was the single worst economic crisis ever experienced by the United States. In President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's own words " fully one-third of the nation's citizens were ill-housed ill-clad and ill-nourished". Roosevelt's was a presidency sired in crisis and sustained in war and the very fabric of American society could not but be fundamentally altered, as these extraordinary years progressed. One such fundamental change pertained to the American family. The Great Depression would forever reform the ways in which women in America were perceived, utilized ... "

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