"The women know that life must go on and that the needs of life must be met and it is their courage and determination which, time and again, have pulled us through worse crises than the present one.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
Many women throughout the Great Depression were still the homemaker in the household and they tried to make do with what they had. Using the limited resources they had common tasks such as making dinner became difficult, instead of having elaborate hearty dishes the food often was enough to sustain but not enough to feel full. Though some women found themselves in the labor force trying to help aid their husbands who either took a wage cut or were laid off, around one-third of working women were married and twenty percent of women were the only form of income for their family.