The Criminal Disney Couple

“Simply fire the women who shouldn’t be working anyway, and hire the men. Presto! No unemployment. No relief rules. No depression.” - Norman Cousins, a journalist in 1939 who believed eliminating working women was the solution to economic recovery after the Great Depression.
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins called working married women “selfish” as they took away jobs from men and single women when they could (in theory) be supported by their husbands. In 1932, the Economy Act was passed that fired one member of each married couple working in a government position. Then in 1933, the federal government required women with federal jobs to use their husbands name and not their maiden name.
Many women thwarted this law by getting married in secret or by using their maiden name (if they did not have a federal job). Laws were also in place that didn’t allow married men and women to work in the same place of business, as was the case for Ken and Polly.
Polly worked in the ink and paint department (later nicknamed “The Nunnery”) so they didn’t exactly work side by side at the studio, as fraternizing between the men and women was discouraged. But no one ever figured out Ken & Polly were married, including Walt Disney.
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