4th-1930s+Status+of+Women


 * Women Rights:

Generally throughout history women have always had fewer career opportunities and legal rights than men. Back then, marriage and motherhood were a main priority for women. In the 20th century, however, women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their educational and job opportunities. Perhaps most important, they fought for and to a large degree accomplished a reevaluation of traditional views of their role in society.


 * Working Women

The 1930s were years of fierce class struggle and great advances for the working women class. Probably no decade before or since has witnessed such an expansion of labor’s influence, The strength in the U.S. The Depression did little to alter the role of women in the American workplace. According to the 1930 census almost eleven million women, or 24.3 percent of all women in the country, were gainfully employed. Three out of every ten of these working women were in domestic or personal service. Of professional women three-quarters were schoolteachers or nurses.


 * ​ Women: ​**//"The Weaker Sex"//**

Women were long considered naturally weaker than men, squeamish, and unable to perform work requiring muscular or intellectual development. In most preindustrial societies, for example, domestic chores were relegated to women, leaving "heavier" labor such as hunting and plowing to men. This ignored the fact that caring for children and doing such tasks as milking cows and washing clothes also required heavy, sustained labor. But physiological tests now suggest that women have a greater tolerance for pain, and statistics reveal that women live longer and are more resistant to many diseases.



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