WOMEN AND MINORITIES: 1930

SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES

• 26 states made it illegal for married women to work
• Women then could work because of the shortage of goods for World War II
• Women were homemakers and mothers
• REFORMS FOR WOMENS AND MINORITIES' RIGHTS
• The New Deal, Women's Rights Movement, racial justice

SEGREGATION: 1930

• African Americans couldn't vote
• Segregation was supported by law enforcement
• Minorities were separated in school, hospitals, and cemetery's, etc.
• Many state laws required a voter to read and write
• African Americans were not allowed to attend school, couldn't vote

LEGAL RIGHTS: WOMEN 1930'S

• Women could attend high school and college
• Women could own property
• Women could have joint custody over her children
• 19th Amendment, women's suffrage
• 1920 women were allowed to have birth control, relieving poverty

OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN: 1930'S

• Domestic service: sales work, factory workers
• Beauticians, teachers, and nurses were the only "women's work"
• African Americans were maids and cooks, they had it harder
• Factories and mills with low pay long hours
• 25%-40% of workers were women nationwide.