cooking, cleaning, and tending the garden
women were supposed to influence their husbands and raise patriotic children
Their parents chose for them.
Stay at home and work in the household, bear and raise children, supervise slaves, and occasionally get out to attend women's religious festivals.
During the 1930s in America, women were treated as if they were valueless. Women were nothing in the eyes of men, and there was no equality between men and women. Women were second-class citizens. They were expected to stay home and raise their children and nothing more.
In 1930s America, women were primarily expected to fulfill traditional roles as homemakers and caregivers, managing household duties and raising children. The Great Depression further reinforced these expectations, as many women were encouraged to support their families by maintaining a stable home environment. While some women did enter the workforce, they often faced discrimination and were typically limited to low-paying jobs. Overall, societal norms emphasized domesticity and the importance of women as wives and mothers.
In sharecropping agreements, women were often expected to contribute to the labor on the farm alongside men. They were responsible for tasks such as planting, weeding, and harvesting crops, as well as domestic duties in the household. Additionally, women typically had little control over the crops they grew or the profits generated from their labor.
The role of the women involved them cooking, cleaning, tending their gardens and even working the fields with the men when need be.
Under sharecropper agreements, women were often expected to contribute significantly to the labor required on the farm, including planting, tending, and harvesting crops. They typically managed household duties alongside agricultural work, often while also caring for children. Sharecropper agreements did not formally recognize women's contributions, leading to their labor being undervalued and undercompensated. This dual burden of work often left women in precarious economic situations, reliant on the agreements made by male family members.
Women were expected to keep the homefront running.
- Women are expected to get married - Women are expected to have children especially boys to be an army - Women are expected to keep quiet when men are around and they are not allowed to interrupt them when men are having a conversation
Women were expected to obey all their male family members.
They were expected to take over men's jobs.
Between 16 and 20 it was expected for young colonial men and women to marry.
They were expected to work in factory jobs.
Men !
Women were expected to influence their husbands and children to be good americans.
Margaret Jarman Hagoood has written: 'Mothers of the South' -- subject(s): Rural conditions, Sharecropping, Women