Which of the Following Statements Regarding the Effect of the Great

question 73

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding the effect of the Great Depression on many women is true?

• A) Because the few women who were afforded the opportunity to work often held the highest paying jobs, they usually were the first to lose those jobs across the board.
• B) Because it was still against the law for women to hold even service jobs or secretary jobs in the 1920s, women suffered the most and relied entirely on men in their lives to make ends meet.
• C) For the duration of the Depression, single white women had the most difficult time keeping jobs because they were viewed as not having a family to support and not needing the money as badly.
• D) As the Depression worsened, married women became some of the primary targets of layoffs due to the thinking that they'd be "stealing" jobs from men and already had husbands supporting them.
• E) Most women remained relatively unaffected by the Depression because men tended to refuse to share their financial situations with their wives, and they managed to live in a state of denial.

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