year-round work, the protections privileged men’s employment patterns over women’s. Another signature program of the New Deal, Aid to Dependent Children (ADC, called Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC, after 1962), was structured to support a tiny number of widows with children after the death of a male wage earner. Women’s economic security was thus tied securely to their roles as wives, mothers, or widows, guaranteeing their continued economic dependence.
