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The Great Depression affected women and men in quite different ways. While men faced major unemployment, women maintained employment or even took on new paid labor in order to support their families. Woman nearly all worked in service industries. In many families women were the only winners. A 22 percent decline in marriage rates between 1929 and 1939 that also meant more single women had to support themselves. By 1940, approximately 13 million women worked for wages outside of the home.
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After camps closed in June 1936, 170,248 men had lived and worked in them.
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In the great depression, the government created a system of unemployment relief camps. Where in exchange for room-and-board, single men did labor. These camps caused controversy. When 1,500 men went on strike demanding better living conditions. After two months in protest in Vancouver, the strikers began they're on to Ottawa Trek. The strikers failed and eventually went to Regina, where the protest ending in violence. The camps closed June 1936.
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This was a change in history because for some women it was there first time working. Some women worked for the period of The Great Depression but went back to staying at home after.
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Women got to be in the work place for the war but were expected to return to home. Some of them did but women working still made an impact for the future.
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This event caused change because after The Great Depression the economic decline never got as worse as August 1929 – March 1933.
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The end of WWII produced a technological advance in agricultural machinery and research all around the world. Almost 40 percent of the total money spent by the government on research and development went to agriculture.The increased demands of variety of products led to the setting up of new factories and old ones increased their production.
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This caused a positive change because unemployment rates went down 10%, also because men were at war, they gave women a chance to work and take over their positions.
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Roughly 350,000 women joined the military during WWII. Although women made a lot of progress during the war. Women worked as nurses, repaired airplanes, drove trucks and clerical work. Though many women went back to being home makers, things wouldn't be the same for the better. The war empowered and gave strength to women in the workplace.
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In the great depression 1 our of 4 people were unemployed. Some men went to relief camps while others were out looking for work trying to provide for there family. Women actually had to start working to provide for there families.
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Some people were able to get jobs but they could barley get by but after the Great Depression things went back to normal
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The Great Depression was one of the worst economic recessions in the history of the industrialized world. Most of the people in the western prairies were farmers, so The Great depression greatly affected them. When prices fell, they tried to produce even more to pay their debts, taxes and living expenses. Prices had fallen so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms. Adding to the dust bowls on the prairie, the situation got worse.
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