WOMEN
Its been a while since I last wrote in here. I just got so busy. This past few years have been work, work, work, work. Before the stock market crashed, I had never worked before. With income being so low and unemployment so high, everyone one in my family was sent off to work. Luckily all my siblings are relatively independent now. None of them are babies and need constant attention which means my mother can go to work along with us. It feels good to work. Not just because I know I'm making money that will put food on the table, but also because it gives me a sense of purpose that I've never known before. I grew up thinking that being a mother and wife would be the best job I'd ever hold. Being this working women feels amazing. The feeling I get is completely worth the backlash I get from men on the street who see me in my work uniform. On my way to and from work, I've been spit at, called names, and taunted. They are angry because I have something that once was theirs and theirs alone. But everyday I put on my work uniform, and step out the door ready to face whatever to keep this job.
- Mary Anne Smith

Throughout the Great Depression, women endured backlash for supposedly taking jobs from men, even though the jobs they went out for were generally not sought after by males. But throughout all this, women had an ally and advocate for equality in the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Although she continuously campaigned for equality, many New Deal programs her husband passed allowed women to receive lower pay than men.

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This is a picture of women working in a textile factory.

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Some women had children too young to leave on their own, so some could not go out and work because they had to take care of their children.