Missy and Linda
Linda's current job
What is nurse?
The Fair Deal wanted to continue this earlier president’s plan called the New Deal.
Who is FDR?
The GI Bill denied access to benefits to these people
Who are women and people of color?
Taft Harley Act limited the power for this.
What are labor unions?
Many women left returned to this traditional domestic role after WWII
What is homemakers?
Missy's current job
What is lawyer?
Truman advocated for this in the military.
Wht is desegregation of the military?
The GI Bill gave loans to allow veterans be able to buy this.
What are homes?
the Taft-Hartley Act outlawed these kinds of shops
What are closed/all union shops?
Women began to do more of this to support their families.
What is getting a job?
This small town is where Missy and Linda live
What is Washington Road?
Truman’s Fair Deal sought to raise this federal standard for workers' pay.
What is minimum wage?
The GI Bill helped shaped this socioeconomic class.
What is the middle class?
Union leaders had to take an oath saying they were not members of this political party.
What is the Communist Party?
Many working women in the 1950s faced this type of discrimination, earning less than men in the same field.
What is wage inequality?
Missy and Linda's friend was affected by this act
What is the Taft Harley Act?
Who are Southern Democrats and Republicans?
What are colleges/universities?
The law allowed states to pass these laws, which diminished union power by ensuring that no worker could be compelled to join a union as a condition of employment.
What are right-to-work laws?
Even after WWII. women continued to be concentrated in these types of low-paying jobs.
What are pink collar jobs?
This sister is older
Who is Missy?
Truman's Fair Deal expanded these benefits
What are social security benefits?
The GI Bill provided veterans with cash up to this amount.
What is $500?
The act placed restrictions on this.
What are secondary boycotts?
Many women felt bored and unfulfilled in the 1950s, as described in this famous book by Betty Friedan.
What is the feminine mystique?