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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.
Women were expected to take care of the household in the early nineteenth century. However, for families that needed a second income, teaching and nursing were two professionals that women could choose to go into.