with respect to government help in employment and relief. For example, as Julia Kirk Blackwelder writes, "Women workers in San Antonio, whether family heads or supplementary workers, faced special obstacles in obtaining emergency jobs. . . . Overall, men dominated the better-paying emergency jobs."
Within the female population, blacks and Hispanics suffered discrimination at a greater rate than whites: "A disproportionate number of women's jobs went to whites rather than blacks and no black or Hispanic women were prominent in the administration of federal programs. . . . "
Of course, the New Deal brought about profound reform on every level of society---social, political, and economic. However, the bulk of New Deal reform was created out of overwhelming necessity society-wide and not out of special group pressure. If American society was to survive, massive reform was required. However, such reform could be carried out, and was, without alte
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