Essay Quiz


1		Consider the impact of the Great Depression on gender roles. Were a serious depression to occur today, would the impact on gender roles be similar to or different from that in the 1930s?



2		Discuss the following assertion: "The married woman worker was the most significant 'new woman' of the 1930s and 1940s."



3		Assess the extent of women's influence on the New Deal, its agencies, and its policies. What facets of women's political activism, if any, had enduring impact?



4		Discuss women's role in some aspect of mass culture in the 1930s or 1940s (for instance, the soap opera, the comic strip, movies, or fiction) and draw a comparison with women's role in the same aspect of mass culture today.



5		Assess the impact of World War II, temporary or permanent, on women in the work force. Should the war be viewed as a "turning point" in women's history?



6		Consider the major issues of women's politics in the 1930s and 1940s and evaluate the following statement: "Women's contributions to the foundations of the welfare state were more significant than the battle for equal rights."

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