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Women in the 30s - Coggle Diagram
Women in the 30s
Historical events
Women had an opportunity to go to school but weren't there for as long as men were for. This is because they thought less in women and more in men. Adding to, the great depression was a very bad impact for them, however there were some job opportunities such as teachers, nurses and and farmers.
WW1 Most of the women had to do the mens jobs as most of them went to war. They helped out by having police officers and making ammunition for the soldiers. Also some women had to learn how to fly in the royale air force.
WW2 The Navy was somewhere where women started to help out from. A lot of mothers had to stay home and help their children. They was a lot of noise so they had to calm the babies down. Also men reacted to the women doing similar jobs to them and realised that they were helping them out. This lead for them getting the vote aswell.
Wall St Crash
A lot of markets were on the streets selling all sorts of useful things back then for what they needed. This made people very angry as they didn't have any access of these markets then.
EVENT OR ACTION
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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES FOR WOMEN
Women spent as little as money as they could just to spare some for the next month and would buy cheap products just to have some left over.
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Beliefs
Were supposed to clean, make it a nice place for their husband and take care of their children. They couldn't do as much as men. They were also supposed to have dinner made for their husband when they get back from work.
Religion? Though Protestantism has always been the predominant and majority form of Christianity in the United States, the nation had a small but significant Catholic population
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Economic factors
Women had to have as little money as possible and had to work with a tight budget. They were also expected to give some money to their husband for them to go out to a pub or casino. They were paid $20 a week and
Wall St Crash - A lot of marketers lost some profit as they had bought a lot of money's worth of food and other useful things. A lot of magazines and newspapers would have made a big impact of people back then as they were the only bits of entertainment.
Attitudes/values
Women were exhausted from cleaning and usually had to sit down and rest. Most of the time there partner would see them on the sofa regularly than them cleaning. Women were really annoyed as they had been cleaning and they hadn't been noticing. Because women were so used to all the cleaning they would go to and get groceries form the supermarket.