Evidence that women were limited

What did pumping money into the economy mean?

Meant government subsidy of enormous construction projects and relegation of women’s work to be less visible

who were the federal agencies largely run by?

Men

what did having political rights not translate to?

Into being able to achieve social justice in the New Deal legislation, which discriminated against mother’s ad married women in an effort to boost employment for men

what did African American women suffer from the South?

Racial discrimination in social security in the South

what did the New Deal social legislation rest on?

The assumption that men worked and women looked after them and the home

what had limited influence?

The desire for equal rights expressed by the more Radical National Women’s Party