22% of women worked outside the home, but during this time it was strongly encouraged to stay within the household.
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it was very bad =(
Herbert Hoover was president.
Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
The stock market crash, structural weakness of the economy, overproduction, maldistribution of wealth and an international crisis contributed to the Great Depression in the United States. ...
The US workforce was 46 million in 1929 and grew to 56 million in 1940. -Greg P