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1. livingnewdeal.org › women-and-the-new-dealWomen and the New Deal

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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.

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   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.

3. www.encyclopedia.com › women-new-dealWomen of the New Deal - Encyclopedia.com

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   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.

4. livingnewdeal.org › a-new-book-recognizes-theA New Book Recognizes the Women of the New Deal

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   May 24, 2019 · When millions of Americans lost their jobs, homes, and life savings in the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt promised them a new deal. A new book, “Women and the Spirit of the New Deal,” reveals the extensive role women played in shaping government’s all-out response to the Great Depression.

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   Apr 12, 2020 · 100 women who contributed to the transformation of American during the Great Depression and FDR’s New Deal. Photo by Susan Ives Communications. Images and brief biographies include politicians, administrators, lawyers, social workers, authors, journalists, painters, sculptors, musicians, secretaries, national park rangers, clerks and scientists.

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   The New Deal included new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and efforts to re-inflate the economy after prices had fallen sharply. New Deal programs included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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   How did the New Deal impact women?

   • 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.

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   How many women were involved in the New Deal?

   • Five thousand women had signed up to be reporters by the summer of 1934, fifteen thousand by 1936, and thirty thousand by 1940. To engage even more women in New Deal political discussions, the DNC's Women's Division sponsored nationwide conferences on politics, government, and education.

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   How did the New Deal affect social workers?

   • In America the most experienced relief workers were those trained in social work; and most trained social workers were women. Hence the New Deal agencies brought a wealth of new opportunities for these women, who were highly qualified to deal with the problems of the Great Depression.

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   How much work-relief did women get during the New Deal?

   • This brought total New Deal work-relief for women to about 743,000 at that date . A WPA project to cultivate rare plants and flowers.

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   How did the DNC engage more women in New Deal politics?

   • To engage even more women in New Deal political discussions, the DNC's Women's Division sponsored nationwide conferences on politics, government, and education. Frances Perkins and Ellen Woodward were among the women who spoke at the conferences.

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   Did women work as lab assistants during the New Deal?

   • In colleges across the country, many NYA men and women worked as lab assistants. Though some women had served in leadership positions in the federal government before the Roosevelt Administration–for example, Grace Abbot and Katherine Lenroot of the U.S. Children’s Bureau–the New Deal swung the federal doors wide open.

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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