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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.
During the state-by-state struggle for women's suffrage (women's right to vote), a brightly colored, single sheet of facts called a "rainbow flyer" had been delivered door-to-door. A similar flyer went to over six million households across the country during Roosevelt's presidential campaign.
Jan 16, 2018 · Ultimately Eleanor Roosevelt decided to leave her papers to the FDR Library, but other prominent women New Dealers did not. Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet – as Secretary of Labor – donated the bulk of her papers to Columbia University.
- Kate Dossett
- 2018
It describes new dilemmas for modern women, who got many of their ideas from the movies, and how gender—as well as class, race, and geography—affected the experience of hard times during the Great Depression.
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.
The number of women at work increased during the war. By 1943 women made up roughly a third of the workforce. Women were employed to do jobs from which they had traditionally been excluded.
Learn about and revise the impact of the New Deal on American society with BBC Bitesize GCSE History - AQA.
