Black people and women were either completely excluded from programs or given the crappy jobs. This included programs and agencies such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, National Park Service, and Works Progress Administration.
For the WPA, there was also a limit of one job per household, effectively excluding married women. This is a de facto example of The government enacted effective restrictions on female employment in response to the Great Depression (Oluo).
Women and people of color were excluded from the bulk of job-creation efforts during the New Deal. Black sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers were by and large omitted from federal relief efforts, jobs programs, and minimum-wage enforcement. Many youth and young-adult job programs refused to admit Blacks. 18 Many employment opportunities, such as those with the Civilian Conservation Corps, were open only to men, cutting young women out of steady work with federal agencies like the National Park Service. 19 Other programs, like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), hired millions of Americans across the country for various public-works infrastructure projects. Black and brown Americans found that prime placement in those jobs went to whites, and many of the jobs were deemed unsuitable for women. There was also a limit of one WPA job per household, effectively eliminating women if a man in the family needed work. 20 — Mediocre, pg 144