American Women In The 1930's

woman how to dress, please her husband, raise her children, and cook her food” . There were also occasional cases where women were advised not to get a job, however, usually the job was in domestic service – like housekeeper, maid, dressmaker, babysitter, waitress, cook etc.
A suggestion on how women could be involved in the recovery of the United States, was made by a 1932 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal. “The world is very tired of shabby, gloomy looking people” – wrote Samuel Crowther in the journal. “The woman who consciously looks less than her best is going against an age old tradition and her intentional shabbiness will soon bore her husband, her children, and her friends” . Many American women, agreed with what was said in the issue, and accepted it as truth. Yet, there were others, like Mrs. Roosevelt, who challenged the media, presenting themselves as different. The First Lady of the United States, despite of being bereaved of her independence, still managed to remain herself.
Radio became of the most popular source of entertainment along with the famous board game Monopoly in 1930’s.
At the beginning of the 1930’s, “women’s radio filled the daytime hours between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m” . It introduced a woman to ‘issues and points of view to which she might never been exposed in her own community, including health, fashions, or even a discussion of wages for working women” . “It’s up to the women” – women often heard that massage on the radio. Women, with a