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A 6 page paper that discusses the roles of men and women prior to the Great Depression and in the 1930s. The writer comments on the gender socializaion processes children experience from infancy beginning with their parents. During the Great Depression and the next decade, women were still able to find jobs because employers would not hire men and men would not accept jobs that were deemed to be female-type jobs Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Great Depression and there werent enough jobs to keep the men employed. Married women were supposed to be at home taking care of house and children. Gender role stereotyping had
been firmly planted as the economy became more industrialized. As capitalism emerged so did classes of workers. Those who owned the factories and other businesses became wealthier while those
who worked for them did not become poorer, they just did not earn enough to become wealthy (OKelly, 1986). Capitalism created a class structure and also reinforced gender-based stereotyping (OKelly,
1986). Women who did work were employed in jobs viewed as feminine (OKelly, 1986). At that time, in fact, prior to World War II, most teachers were male and most
librarians were female (OKelly, 1986). After the war, the gender associated with those jobs switched (OKelly, 1986). More women were teachers than men and men entered library science and shortly
took over most of the administrative and other higher ranked librarian positions (OKelly, 1986). Weeden (1998) reported that gender segregation in terms of occupation was both stable and persistent
between 1900 and 1960. Weeden (1998) reported: "at the start of the twentieth century, most women in the paid labor force worked in occupations they (and their employers and families)
deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the feminine occupations referred to in the preceding paragraph. Mostly, women were relegated
to domestic responsibilities of caring for house and children (OKelly, 1986). Women were perceived as important contributors to the development of industrialization because they made male employees more efficient by
taking care of their needs, thus, freeing men to concentrate only on their work (OKelly, 1986). However, if a shortage of labor occurred, employers depended on women to fill those
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