Were There Jobs/careers That Were Dominated By Men Instead Of Women During The Great Depression

During the Great Depression, were there some people who didn't suffer as much as the rest?

The Great Depression was an terrible time in U.S. History. Under the guise of the free-market, financial movers and shakers lost their collective gripo on risk, and let greed take over. Without level headed stewards like Pierpont Morgan, the unprecedented capital position of the United States created a once in a generation bubble, fueled by credit. Credit collapsed. And as Ben Bernake had told peopleCredit has the ability to build a modern economy, but lack of credit has the ability to destroy it, swiftly and absolutely.So, those who were using credit to fund their business development and expansion failed in the Great Depression. Farmers who had to rely on credit to do the planting which would lead to a harvest, industrustrial innovation and modernization, Importers getting goods from oversea and selling here for a profit, and all entrepreneurial activity ceased, and those involved came to ruin.An yet there were many who started buying from their large cash positions. Joseph Kennedy and J Paul Getty, who had amassed large cash positions, bought all stocks and other assets on the cheap. They benefited from the misfortune of others. Ben Bernake reflected on the lack of understanding of the Federal Reserve“Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933”Read more at: Ben Bernanke QuotesThe people saying that we should let the “Market”: handle the crisis dominated the Great Depression. And while these people were denying the need for immediate action, their cash rich supporters were making a killing on the hard earned money of the average citizen investment lost in the haze of over-heated greed.FAilures of the banking system may be caused by the average citizen buying too much stock with borrowed money (Great Depression), or buying too many houses with borrowed money ( Great Recession) and the ambitious financial executive trying to make his fortune before the eventual collapse, but the length of the economic upheaval is certainly determined by the policies that are followed in the aftermath, financial policies that are heavily effected by the rich power elite. They make money during normal economic times, but they can make a killing off the money of others when the market panics.

How were wealthy people affected during the Great Depression?

A lot of the answer depended on why they were wealthy.  :-)  If you were a wealthy banker, for instance, you did OK in 1929, but 1932 probably wiped you out.  If you were wealthy because you owned a company (Cord Motor Cars, for example) you watched your business slowly decline and die a long-hard death due to the economic recession.  If you were just really  rich (Rockefeller, Astor, etc) you didn't really notice, and life continued on as before.There were also some folks who actually made their fortunes during the 30's, though the "winners" were fewer than the "losers".  One of the huge reasons for so many people becoming destitute, however, were the banking practices of the day.  Much of the money lost in 1929 was money put on deposit (or sometimes "borrowed" from safety deposit boxes) with banks by "investors" in those banks.  The loss of capitol led to the bank collapse in 1932 when people started trying to withdraw funds from savings - and the funds were gone.  Surprise!  You thought you were rich, and then you weren't anymore.  This is why my grandparents preferred to put money in a box on the shelf to putting it in the bank.  But by and large, the truly wealthy lived "above it all" and were not greatly influenced by the Great Depression.

What hardships existed during the Great Depression?

The greatest hardship was unemployment, so many millions desperate for work and unable to find any, even year after year.The unemployment rate varied from 15–25%. Ashamed husbands abandoned their families, many children left school to work to support the family, women with jobs didn’t want to get married because they might be forced to give up their job. The depression was even more harsh on minorities who were already at the bottom and had no reserves to fall back on.Also, the desperately poor and powerless white and black sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the south of the US were particularly vulnerable. The south was still a plantation system for the most part and poorly educated, indebted landless laborers lived hand to mouth. They were also being replaced by tractors, so many drove westward looking for work. Here’s an article on the southern way of life about sharecroppers and child labor: http://www.oldmagazinearticles.c...There’s a strange saying that people had about the depression: “It wasn’t so bad if you had a job.”

Is it true that during the Great Depression, thousands of Americans moved to the Soviet Union because it was far better there?

Some did, they were convinced by Soviet propaganda that it was a “socialist workers paradise” where everything worked, was equalized, hyperrational, planned long range and efficiently, tolerant, the future of mankind. By contrast the U.S. seemed cursed from the hottest temperatures of the century and resulting Dust Bowl, unemployment ranging from 6% to 70% (youth, minorities, women), collapsing banks and businesses, cities going bankrupt, farm and home mortgages repossessed and auctioned weekly, etc. although much of this was exacerbated by the same central planning by impractical people (and often Soviet agents within the U.S. govt from the President’s economic advisors on down.)Arriving in Russia they slowly discovered millions of Soviet citizens were starving to death in a deliberate famine, millions of Army officers and non-commissioned officers had been murdered to prevent military coups against the regime, vast concentration camps in Siberia had been built and filled with the middle class-succesful farmers particularly-to drain away the leadership and support for rebellion, agriculture was collapsing with Soviet reorganization and “optimization” in some of the most productive farmland on Earth, shortages of everything was common while economic development had slowed by 2/3rd from what it was under the corrupt and incompetent pre-Soviet government 1890–1914. In other words it really was Hell on Earth (by contrast going to Europe, Latin America, or Southeast Asia would have been better.) American media had stubbornly stuck with “fake news” about the Soviet Union from the 1920’s with John Reid’s fake news coverage of the Russian Revolution for the New York Times to the recent U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Walter Duranty’s extremely fake bestselling memoir (and feature film) “Mission to Moscow.” Fooling the rest of the world about what was going on there proved surprisingly easy and enduring, not really cracking until Nikita Kruschev, Alexander Solzenheitzen, and others revealed the truth in the 1950’s after Stalin’s death.Some of the Americans managed to eventually return home, many were stuck, and a few remained delusional enough to endless rationalize that they had made the right choice.