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Junior Thesis Rough Draft Roland Ko Yellow 1/29/14 Research Question: How did the Great Depression affect women in both the household and in the job industry, in addition to the long-term benefits for equality for women? Through putting in hard work under strenuous conditions at the factory, in addition to maintaining their households for their families, and with built up motivation, women were able to make strides towards equality. At the workplace, women persevered through the arduous conditions of the factories and the animosity from their coworkers. At home, women had to additionally maintain as well as take care of their families after working from their jobs. Through their overwhelming contributions towards their households and jobs, women were able to gather motivation to strive for equality. Through their dedication and hard work in both their households and jobs, women were convincingly able to authorize themselves as identical. Women during the Great Depression were given the challenge of maintaining their households while financially seeking jobs in an effort to support their families. In addition to the long hours and bad working conditions women had to endure when they were working outside of their houses, women were met with the same responsibilities at home to both maintain and support their households by cooking, cleaning, and being sympathizers for their men. With women additionally maintaining their households in addition to working full time jobs, women were able to greatly show their impact on the Great Depression through their hard work and dedication, as well as prove that they were just as capable as men in providing for their families. To begin with, women had to start makin... ...s fair to say that they were successful. Not only were women able to unify more in protests by performing sit-ins, women were also being addressed at a national level, thus pushing their movement and recognition for equality even further. In conclusion, despite the fact that women were considered to be exclusively housewives and sympathizers for their men, women during the Great Depression were able to show that they were capable of doing what men could in showing they did better than men in academics and showing that they were able to equally work in labor jobs, ultimately being one of the major factors in pushing their movement for equality through their contributions in both the household and in the work industry, creating the first real steps toward women achieving equilibrium with men in both the household lifestyle and in the public working conditions at work.