In this percentage, women did not count. In 1929, the majority of women did not work, and the ones that did, made a much lower income than the men. During the crash, the impact on workers was tremendous. There was an intense job competition for low wages. Since times were so desperate, the women took the lower paying jobs while the men worked the higher paying jobs. This was causing a great deal of discrimination as well. During the Second New Deal in 1935, an executive order, 7046, was issued to prohibit discrimination in hiring and wages in the Works Progress Administration in bases on gender. Following the Works Progress Administration (WPA), came the Social Security Act. This act provided pensions to Americans over the age of sixty-five, and also pensions to pay to women whose husbands died while they still had children under the age of eighteen. In reality, this Act still accepted the fact that the men were still the “bread winners” of the family, and women could not support the children without
In this percentage, women did not count. In 1929, the majority of women did not work, and the ones that did, made a much lower income than the men. During the crash, the impact on workers was tremendous. There was an intense job competition for low wages. Since times were so desperate, the women took the lower paying jobs while the men worked the higher paying jobs. This was causing a great deal of discrimination as well. During the Second New Deal in 1935, an executive order, 7046, was issued to prohibit discrimination in hiring and wages in the Works Progress Administration in bases on gender. Following the Works Progress Administration (WPA), came the Social Security Act. This act provided pensions to Americans over the age of sixty-five, and also pensions to pay to women whose husbands died while they still had children under the age of eighteen. In reality, this Act still accepted the fact that the men were still the “bread winners” of the family, and women could not support the children without