The Great Depression
A) bankrupted Argentina's largest companies and spawned skyrocketing unemployment that hurt women more than men.
B) increased immigration and transformed the nation's ethnic labor force.
C) dramatically reduced women's participation as a share of the national labor force.
D) virtually eliminated women workers in the textile, tobacco, and clothing industries.
Question 2
In 1924, trade unions and women's groups secured passage of a law that established
A) an eight-hour work day for women, limited a woman's work week to 48 hours, and prohibited night work.
B) civil equality among men and women in the workplace.
C) free child care, pre- and post-partum medical care, and the right to an abortion for working women.
D) free vocational education for working women.