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New Deal & Women - Coggle Diagram
New Deal & Women
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Organises conferences at the White House for women's rights
- 1945 leaves the white house
- Put's pressure on the next two Democratic presidents Truman & JFK to improve womens rights
*Critique
The New deal does a lot for white, working class, men. It does not do much for women or native Americans
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The WPA (Works Project Association) brought work opportunities for women, 300,000 per year
The NYA (National Youth Administration), 235,000 enrolled in NYA student work program
New Deal work relief = 743,000
More radical reforms suggested by the National Women's Party 1916. Overall historians maintain that gender discrimination was the norm.