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The New Deal was a revolutionary era, opening up a vast new space of opportunity and benefits for women, one that tapped into their leadership abilities, wide-ranging skill sets, and life experiences like never before.
By 1939, 19 percent of government employees were women, 5 percent more than ten years earlier. The women's rate of federal employment was increasing twice as fast as the men's, but it was doing so only in specific areas of government—in the new federal agencies providing work relief and social security programs.
1 A total of three (2D, 1R) women served in the Senate in the 75th Congress, but no more than two served together at any one time. Part of the time two Democrats served together, and part of the time one Democrat and one Republican served together.
"Women and the New Deal" refers to the impact of the New Deal policies on women during the 1930s in the United States. The New Deal provided opportunities for women to enter the workforce through programs such as the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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The New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority (as well as the party that held the White House for seven out of the nine presidential terms from 1933 to 1969) with its base in progressive ideas, the South, big city machines and the newly empowered labour unions, and various ethnic groups.
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Brown, Nikki. 2006. Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Cook, Blanche Weisen. 2000. Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 2: The Defining Years: 1933-1938. New York: Penguin Random House. Downey, Kirstin. 2009. The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances