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But women's wages remained a necessary component in family survival.

In many instances, employers lowered pay scales for women workers, or even, in the case of teachers, failed to pay their workers on time. Clerical workers, teachers, nurses, telephone operators, and domestics largely found work. Women primarily worked in service industries, and these jobs tended to continue during the 1930s.

And the work most directly associated with males, especially manufacturing in heavy industries like steel production, faced the deepest levels of lay-offs during the Great Depression.

The economy of the period relied heavily on so-called "sex-typed" work, or work that employers typically assigned to one sex or the other. The Great Depression affected women and men in quite different ways.