How Were Women Treated In The 1930's

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In the 1930’s, most women didn’t have jobs. Everyone was poor and racism was still prevalent. Disabled and blind people were treated almost like children. Mr. Will wasn’t treated as much of an efficient adult as he was, merely because he was blind. Today, the blind can receive as much help as they may need, but there are more things that exist to help them in their daily lives, and are seen more as people than a burden to a family than they were in the 30’s. Mrs. Spalding was expected to let her family split apart and move out of her house after her husband dies because they no longer had any source of income and there was no way she could do it alone, with her being a woman in the 1930’s. Women today are expected to have jobs, just like men

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