The Great Depression in America

Running head: IMPACT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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1IMPACT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
The Great Depression in America happened during 1929-39 and it had laid a huge impact
over the American women and their families. Due to this great economic recession a huge
number of male members of the families lost their jobs which drove the women of the families to
earn their living. There had also been a sharp decline in the marriage rates as the number of
single women in America had been increasing because they had to support themselves and there
had been an urgent need for them to be the breadwinners of the families.
Discussion of this topic is significant since The Great Depression of America gave rise to
the sense of equality since the women also came out of their home to start working. The
following is a list of sources which act as an annotated bibliography for the paper.
Temin, Peter. "Great Depression." In Banking Crises, pp. 144-153. Palgrave Macmillan,
London, 2016.
In the article the author talks about the impact of the Great Depression upon the entire
nation since the industrial production of the nation started to decline to a great extent. However it
is limited since there is no discussion about the impact of the same upon the families of America.
Ruggles, Steven. "Patriarchy, power, and pay: The transformation of American families,
1800–2015." Demography 52, no. 6 (2015): 1797-1823.
This article talks about the impact of the rise of the women laborers in the twentieth
century, and the consequences of it which were the decline in the economic opportunity for the
entire nation.