impact of the new deal

What pressure increased?

That women shouldn’t steal jobs from men

Why were women employed in preference to men?

They worke for less money, employed by companies hard hit and anxious to reduce costs

How much did numbers of women workers increase by in the 1930s?

From 11.7% to 15.2% of the total workforce

What was the issue with married women?

They found it more difficult to work and some states stopped married women from taking jobs in any publicly run institutions

How did the Depression have an effect?

 Depression put pressure on wages, and this hit AA women hard. The progress made in the 1920s was reversed by the Depression

What were there problems in enforcing?

Progressive legislation making more equal pay levels mandatory

Who suffered from increasingly low wages for menial work?

Hard-pressed women who moved from depressed areas to find new work, and the AA women