Recently, Some Historians Have Argued That the New Deal Had

question 34

Multiple Choice

Recently, some historians have argued that the New Deal had a more radical effect on men than women for all of the following reasons except

• A) Social Security was designed to assist male breadwinners, who were expected to share benefits with their families.
• B) married women were rarely favored for jobs in New Deal agencies.
• C) social and economic programs of the New Deal maintained or reaffirmed women's traditional roles as wives or mothers.
• D) social and economic programs of the New Deal tended to provide more opportunities to men than women.
• E) many men were required to assume significant child rearing responsibility because of the millions of women who went to work for New Deal agencies.

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