(The New Deal & the economy) Impact of New Deal on women

Question 1

Politics - what were characteristics of many of the women involved in politics at this time?
(2)

Answer 1

Friends of Eleanor Roosevelt

Involved in women’s suffrage

Question 2

Politics - what were women in politics called?

Answer 2

“A cordial interlocking of minds”

Question 3

Politics - what did domestic feminists do?

Answer 3

Used the traditional role of women in the home to justify intervention in the public sphere of politics.

Question 4

Politics - domestic feminists used the traditional role of women in the home to justify intervention in the public sphere of politics.

How?
(3)

Answer 4

They could spread education
They knew fair treatment of women & children
They had good housekeeping skills to prevent corruption

Question 5

Politics - who are 3 important women in politics in this time?

Answer 5

Frances Perkins
Mary McLeod Bethune
Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 6

Politics - who was Frances Perkins?

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Answer 6

1st female cabinet member when she became Secretary of Labour.

Helped pass federal minimum wage in Fair Labour Standards Act 1938 & played central role in establishing CCC.

Question 7

Politics - when was Frances Perkins in cabinet?

Answer 7

1933-1945

Question 8

Politics - who was Mary McLeod Bethune?

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Answer 8

Highest ranking black woman in govt in 1936, being named director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.

Chairperson of informal ‘Black Cabinet’.

VP of NAACP in 1940.

Had limited success demanding black youth receive equal federal aid & black americans receive equal wage in federal govt.

Question 9

Politics - who was Mary McLeod Bethune known as?

Answer 9

The most prominent black american in the New Deal.

Question 10

Politics - what was Eleanor Roosevelt’s most influential long-term success?

Answer 10

Changed the role of first lady.

Question 11

Politics - who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

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Answer 11

First lady

Helped make New Deal policies due to her intelligence and personality, as well as her social & political links.

Became an ‘unofficial’ member on FDR’s advisory team.

Used her influence to champion the right of ethnic minorities & women, as well as influence federal policy.

During the New Deal, she held 348 press conferences explaining what she believed should be done.

Question 12

Politics - who ran the Women’s Division of the Democratic Party?

Answer 12

Molly Dewson

Question 13

Politics - who was the director of the Women’s Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration fromm 1933 - 1935?

Answer 13

Ellen Woodward

Question 14

Politics - who was the first female ambassador to Denmark in 1933?

Answer 14

Ruth Bryan Owen

Question 15

Employment - how was there positive change in employment?

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Answer 15

“She, she, she” camps employed women on short-term projects.

New Deal saved education by funding schools, most teachers were women.

Some alphabet agencies offered opportunities for women.

Question 16

Employment - how was there limited change in employment?

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Answer 16

New Deal & Labour Unions felt men should be breadwinners. At a time when jobs were limited, only 1 family member could secure employment, usually men.

Women on average earned $525 during the 30s, half that of men.

1933 Economy Act forbade 2 people from same family for working for federal govt.

NRA codes allowed for unequal wages.

The Social security Act (1935) didn’t include domestic servants, 100,000s being women.

Question 17

Employment - the 1933 Economy Act forbade 2 people from the same family for working for federal govt.
What was the impact of this?

Answer 17

75% of those who lost their jobs were women.

Question 18

Black women - what is significant about the Birmingham Southern Conference for Welfare in 1938?

Answer 18

Eleanor Roosevelt attended and didn’t want it to be segregated so sat between the two groups.

Question 19

Politics - what were 2 issues for Eleanor Roosevelt campaigned for?

Answer 19

The role of women and Civil Liberties (child refugees)

Question 20

Politics - what did Eleanor Roosevelt do during WW2?

Answer 20

She visited troops and campaigned for child refugees to have the right to come into the USA

Question 21

Politics - what kind of work did women employed in the ‘She, she, she’ do?

Answer 21

Sewing projects - 500 million bedding & clothing items produced.