Women in the Great Depression

A Sharon M. Hanes woman talked about women, and how she and other women deal with food for their families and others. "Do things." If you are extremely cautious, women can bring up a $ 6 family every Friday ... mothers can make baking pots in a week. There was a section of vegetable garden in the backyard and a vacant city, the women made their own cans, pickled them and saved it ... "(Haines). These women are moving and thinking about how to solve the most interesting way of what they own.

The woman's main role during the Great Depression was a housewife. Of course, some women have studied at the university and feel that it is difficult to find a job just like a man. The work of a person with a family is to reunite with their families when the family's main income is unemployed. These women must be creative. They obviously can not make carefully prepared meals for their families, but they do what they have. Several women will join the labor force and engage in the work they used to work in the past. In this difficult time, these women do their best to support their families.

Because of the extensive unemployment of men, poverty, and the need to help families in worse circumstances, women are under greater pressure through the Great Depression in the modern world. The main role is housewife. Without stable household incomes, their work will be more difficult in dealing with food, clothing and medical care. Since the child has been postponed to the family to provide economic support, the birthrate is everywhere. The average birthrate in the 14 major countries declined by 12% from 19.3 per 1,000 in 1930 to 17.0 in 1935. In Canada, half of Roman Catholic women ignore the teachings of the church and use contraceptives to delay conception

America was an era when many women were hired to earn extra money for families, but that work was limited to factory labor and other low-wage jobs. Women are severely discriminated against in the workplace, and society has abandoned the work of women. Georgia 's "floating" happened between civil war and reconstruction. Prior to the Civil War, women were limited to family worship and had no power in politics and society. When these people participated in the war, white women helped and managed the husband's work in the war. And I proved that women can prove to be as valuable as men of labor (Dwyer). The main character of this novel, Scarlet O'Hara, is a woman of the South Elite who has a strong will, fighting for her survival after destroying in the war, restoring her family plantation Tara.