Great Depression in the United States, worst and longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. Beginning in the United States, the depression spread to most of the world's industrial countries, which in the 20th century had become economically dependent on one another. The Great Depression saw rapid declines in the production and sale of goods and a sudden, severe rise in unemployment. …
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…their status when they saw their wives and children working to the point when they were too ashamed to get relief or help from friends Women were blamed for taking the jobs of men and in 1931, the Federation of Labor even endorsed it Women continued to work doing women work? such as nursing, and even if they were able to get an industry job which seldom hired women, they usually were paid less than men