Around the 1900s, European countries began offering comprehensive nationwide social benefits to the working class, made up of men . They offered worker benefits to incentivize citizens to join the workforce, which would provide a huge boost to the country's economy. However, America began to offer benefits to veterans and women, so much so that women received more benefits than men. This phenomenon directly contradicts an important TBS statement. The SCT asserts that dependents (like women in this era) receive more rhetoric than actual benefits, while the advantaged (like working men) are the group that benefits most from the policy. Women were dependent because they were viewed favorably, but they lacked political power because they could not vote. If this were true, it would be impossible for women to currently receive more benefits than men. Skocpol's article also discusses the feedback effects of