Because of the Great Depression, many women found it harder to secure work. If you were married, they wouldn’t hire you. Men were supposed to be the breadwinners, and if you were married and working, you were stealing a man’s job. But I was single, and I knew that there were a few industries that hired women: retail and advertising. The trouble was those places liked to have college graduates. Macy’s demanded it; you couldn’t be a shopgirl there without a degree, it was a posh place.
