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Question: What kind of education did women get in 1935!?
Specifically, from 1935 to 1940!.

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Girls would have had much the same sort of academic education as boys, with certain exceptions, like it would have been more usual for girls to have domestic science classes (cookery etc) while boys might do things like woodwork and metalwork!.

And girls most certainly did go to college, they had been going to college ever since the 1870s!. However, at that time fewer people of either sex would have gone to college, it was not obligatory in those days, a lot of people left school before they were college age!.

Most women did much the same kind of jobs as most women do today!. That is, they were teachers and nurses and secretaries and typists and librarians and social workers and hairdressers!. A lot of women worked in factories or in shops, and many worked in domestic service, or in restaurants or laundries!. They worked as telephone switchboard operators!. There were women doctors, though not as many as there are today, and some women lawyers!. There were some women journalists!.

Most women gave up work when they married, but not all, and during the Depression there was a tendency for more married women to try and get jobs in order to keep the family financially afloat!. There were attempts made to try and persuade women not to work, but msot women who needed to work had no choice in the matter!. A federal law passed during the Depression, prohibited the employment of "married persons" whose spouses were also working for the government (Eleanor Roosevelt called the law "a very bad and foolish thing" - government salaries were so low, she argued, a family needed two incomes just to get along)!. Legislators in twenty-six states introduced laws completely banning the hiring of married women, although only Louisianna actually passed a law, and it was quickly declared unconstituional!. More than three-quarters of the nation's public school districts refused to hire married teachers - unless they were male!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Women were taught how to read and write, basic arithmetic, music, history, and science!.

Granted, public education was not mandatory and most women were impoverished because of the Great Depression!. The women whose parents could afford to send them to more well established schools learned languages (French and Latin usually)!.

Women usually worked as seamstresses or in factories (usually textile mills) In larger cities like Chicago and New York, women worked in different factories!.


Most women tried to stay in the home and raise the children, but if they had to work they worked in factories!. They could be schoolteachers or shopowners!. But the majority were low-income factory workers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

kind of education!? craptastic!.
actually, i'd assume (i certainly am no authority on the subject) but mostly nursing and teaching!. considering the 30's were an era of the depression, i'd probably say these were the two most prominant jobs for women!. i don't think schooling, like college, came into effect until later, porbably at least 40s and 50s!. certainly a lot more common in the 60s!.

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My Mother was born in 1908 and went a year to college--I was born in 1929, Mom had worked in The Dime Store while attending college; she was a violinist in the college orchestra!. I think other than as a sales clerck, there was seamstress, teachers, and accounting in banks!. Not until the outbreak of WWII, did higher paying jobs open up--ship-building on the West Coast, etc!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Not much formal education, however many became first time workers!. They worked in offices, manufacturing plants, farms!. this became a huge source of education for many women!.Www@QuestionHome@Com