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     • 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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   Why did women join the New Deal?

   • The early appointments of women to New Deal agency posts were attributed in part to President Roosevelt's desire to break new ground; in part to the influence of his wife, Eleanor; and in large part to the vigorous work of Molly Dewson, chairperson of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Convention.

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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 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 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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   Did the New Deal discriminate against women?

   • Women achieved important symbolic breakthroughs: FDR appointed the first female Cabinet member, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, as well as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Women also played an increasingly important role in the machinery of the Democratic Party. Overall, however, New Deal programs discriminated against women.

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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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   Given the gender roles of the time and the New Deal’s emphasis on public works projects when construction was defined as a masculine occupation, the employment of women in work-relief programs rarely equaled the employment of men.

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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.

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   May 29, 2023 · Through New Deal programs, hundreds of thousands of jobless women were able to work for good, accomplishing tasks on behalf of themselves, their families and the nation.

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   Describe the challenges women faced during the Depression and the way that the New Deal affected women. Analyze the extent to which the Roosevelt administration provided a “new deal” for nonwhites.

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   The New Deal provided opportunities for women to enter the workforce through programs such as the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps. It also addressed issues such as wage discrimination and labor rights, although some argue that the policies did not fully address the needs of women.

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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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    Women held about 12 percent of WPA jobs, even though they made up at least 25 percent of the unemployed. 73 New Deal programs generally assigned women to gender-specific jobs—for instance, sewing and canning projects—and paid them a fraction of the wages given to their male counterparts. (Professional women, particularly those employed in ...