Evaluate the impact of the Great Depression on women in one country in the Americas.

Candidates will make an appraisal of the impact of the Great Depression on women in any one country in the region. Candidates may, for example, choose to address the beneficial and detrimental effects in discrete groups, or they may choose to focus on individual arguments in their assessment. Candidates may argue that more women, both single and married, entered the workforce to help their home economies. However, wages were low and employment opportunities were often temporary or seasonal. Some candidates may argue that the working opportunities during the Great Depression did not offer women significant prospects for advancement but nonetheless, it became a starting point for a more active participation in the labour market and empowered them to make further social and political demands. Candidates may assess the impact of the Great Depression on different racial groups of women within the selected country. In some cases, men abandoned their families due to their unemployment, leaving women as head of the household.