New quotas on the hiring of women rédacteurs were not the only threat to women civil servants' livelihoods and ambitions once France felt the impact of the Great Depression during the 1930s. Mounting unemployment or underemployment injected new urgency into the continuing postwar debate about women's societal roles and fueled calls for married women's departure from the workplace. Until 1932 France escaped the full brunt of the international economic downturn touched off by the New York stock-market crash in October 1929, but reduced demand for French exports diminished trade well before unemployment became a major problem. Increasingly short-lived cabinets soon had to reckon with declining tax revenues – 22 percent lower in 1935 than in 1930 – and, to balance budgets, adopted cost-cutting measures which affected the civil service. Radical republican Edouard Herriot, leader of the center-left coalition victorious in the 1932 elections, reduced purchasing of supplies, left vacant posts unfilled, and delayed promotions. His successor, Joseph Paul-Boncour, suspended all national civil service recruiting for 1933 but allowed some exceptions. Edouard Daladier's government imposed the first pay cuts, on a graduated basis, in 1933.