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Roles of woman gaining respect is the biggest change of this era. Woman went from being viewed as a house wife that follows whatever her husband says. Woman had no say in what America wants or needs. Woman needed to care for kids and have dinner done for men when they are arriving home. Until woman had enough of being the follower and chose to step into a mans shoes and act as leaders. Females made change, and changed how the world viewed females. Females had the same brain man does and they brought light to that. It affected America in a positive way, woman got rights and got more freedom to better the world. Changing the role of woman not only helped females but it helped the economy. More jobs where given to everyone, and that added a change to our culture. It invented the American dream, if you work for what you want you can achieve anything. This changed influenced woman and girls to get outgoing with their life and become more like men. Whether it was a hair style or posing in a boy stands to getting a manly job. This gave woman more confidence they could do just about anything they dream. This is still a factor today, what women did a 100 years ago still caries on today. A woman has the courage and respect to run the United States.

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The changing role of women in the 1920s started as WWI ended, and a rise of new cultures and technologies came about.  During the war, there was a great increase and improvement in industry and production, as well as a shortage of workers as many men went to war.  This led to an increase of women joining the workforce to help contribute to the war effort.  When the war ended and men came back from war, these women who had joined the workforce had become accustomed to their new roles in wartime society, and wanted to maintain these roles in a new, postwar society.  This motive, along with the rise of modernism, consumerism, and a new culture, shaped the overall change in women's norms.  An example of this "New Woman" is the flapper.  These young women, with their scandalous clothing, short haircuts, and fun and lively lifestyles created great controversy among the public.  Although there was a great shift in culture and norms that led to a more modern society, there were still many people who believed in traditional values and practices.  These were often the older, pre-war people who understood life before the war and still stood by the ideas of traditional society in hopes that America would return to these ideals.  However, the many young people who had grown up with the war wanted to create a new, post-war, modernism society, and were motivated to defy norms and tradition to achieve their goal.  These flappers were a key aspect to this young, modern culture, and defined the shift in women's roles in society during the "roaring 20s".  The ratification of the 19th Amendment also contributed to this shift, which gave women the right to vote and therefore more independence.  Women increasingly became more independent and were joining the workforce, instead of following the traditional strictly housewife and mother role that women had previously been expected to fulfill.

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1. flapper: a young woman, especially one who, during the 1920s, behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner.
2. 19th Amendment: Was the US amendment ratified in 1920 that gave women the right to vote.
3. Modernism:  a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement or divergence from the past in the arts and literature occurring especially in the course of the 20th century and taking form in any of various innovative movements and styles.
4. American Consumerism: the increase in consumption of goods during the 1920s that resulted in new technologies along with an overall rising economy.
5. "New Woman":  another word for flapper, "New Woman" represented the shift away from traditional, household roles of women in society.

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This website is short with only two pictures; although it is full of facts. Some people blamed WWI, women’s suffrage, or even prohibition,  for many changes to society and the economy. These Females changed everything about them in peoples eyes. To change they did things such as bootleg-gin-drinking, cigarette-in-holder-smoking, necking and swearing, Charleston-dancing jazz baby; the short-haired or bobbed-hair young girl with a defiantly boyish figure, a fringed skirt, and stockings rolled and bunched below the knee as brazen witness to the fact that-gasp-she wore no corset.

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The women of today have gained more respect and equality than the females of yesterday. Women have gained much more freedom but of course the situation is not perfect. Females don't face the problems they use to nearly as much.

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This website provides real pictures that show you what life was like in the 19th century for woman. Then the website describes how women have evolved... the "Flapper". These females have invented a new era with their short skirts and smoking lifestyle. In the 1920s many woman still did not work outside the house if their husband had a steady paying job.

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"A New Woman Emerges"

by Louise Benner
Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Spring 2004.
Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of History

A woman of 1920 would be surprised to know that she would be remembered as a "new woman." Many changes would enter her life in the next ten years. Significant changes for women took place in politics, the home, the workplace, and in education. Some were the results of laws passed, many resulted from newly developed technologies, and all had to do with changing attitudes toward the place of women in society.

The most far-reaching change was political. Many women believed that it was their right and duty to take a serious part in politics. They recognized, too, that political decisions affected their daily lives. When passed in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote. Surprisingly, some women didn't want the vote. A widespread attitude was that women's roles and men's roles did not overlap. This idea of "separate spheres" held that women should concern themselves with home, children, and religion, while men took care of business and politics. North Carolina opponents of woman suffrage, or voting, claimed that "women are not the equal of men mentally" and being able to vote "would take them out of their proper sphere of life."

Though slow to use their newly won voting rights, by the end of the decade, women were represented on local, state, and national political committees and were influencing the political agenda of the federal government. More emphasis began to be put on social improvement, such as protective laws for child labor and prison reform. Women active in politics in 1929 still had little power, but they had begun the journey to actual political equality.

With regard to education, North Carolina's female high school students seldom expected to go to college. If they did, they usually attended a private college or Woman's College in Greensboro (now UNC-G), where there were no male students. Most of the Woman's College students became teachers or nurses, as these were considered suitable professions for women. North Carolina State College (now NCSU) enrolled its first woman student in 1921, but it was not until 1926 that N.C. State decreed, "A woman who completes work for a degree offered by the institution [can] be graduated." In 1928 only twenty-one women were enrolled there.

The University of North Carolina opened housing to female graduate students in 1921, but they were not made welcome. The student newspaper headlined, "Women Not Wanted Here." Few North Carolina women earned degrees during the 1920s. But times were changing, and each year more women earned college degrees.

At the beginning of the decade, most North Carolina women lived in rural areas without electricity. Imagine trying to keep food fresh without a refrigerator, ironing (no drip-dry clothing then) with an iron that had to be reheated constantly, cooking on a woodstove, going to an outside well for water, and always visiting an outhouse instead of a bathroom. Rural electrification did not reach many North Carolina homes until the 1940s.

Urban women found that electricity and plumbing made housework different, and often easier, with electrically run vacuum cleaners, irons, and washing machines. Electricity meant that people could stay up later at night, because electric lights were more efficient than kerosene lamps and candles. Indoor plumbing brought water inside and introduced a new room to clean-the bathroom.

In the United States in the 1920s, only about 15 percent of white and 30 percent of black married women with wage-earning husbands held paying jobs. Most Americans believed that women should not work outside the home if their husbands held jobs. As a result of this attitude, wives seldom worked at outside jobs. However, some married women in desperate need took jobs in textile mills.

By 1922 North Carolina was a leading manufacturing state, and the mills were hiring female floor workers. Cotton mills also employed a few nurses, teachers, and social workers to staff social and educational programs. These mills did not hire black women, however, because of segregation. As a consequence, white millworkers often hired black women as domestic and child-care workers. Fewer jobs were available in tobacco factories because most of their 1920s machinery was automated. The largest North Carolina tobacco manufacturers did employ both black and white women, but strictly separated workers by race and gender.

At the same time, public acceptance of wage-earning jobs for young unmarried women was growing. No longer being limited to work as "mill girls" or domestics, these women began to perform clerical work in offices and retail work in shops and department stores. It became acceptable for working girls to live away from their families. Some young married women worked until they had children. Working for wages gave women independence, and by 1930 one in four women held a paying job.

Despite increasing opportunities in employment and education, and the expanding concept of a "woman's place," marriage remained the goal of most young women. Magazine articles and movies encouraged women to believe that their economic security and social status depended on a successful marriage. The majority worked only until they married.

Working women became consumers of popular products and fashions. Women who would never tolerate the strong smells and stains of chewing tobacco or cigars began to smoke the new, and relatively clean, mild cigarettes. Cigarettes were advertised to women as a sign of modern sophistication, and the 1920s "flapper " is usually pictured with a cigarette in her hand.

Today the easily recognized image of the flapper symbolizes the 1920s for many people. The flapper-with her short skirts, short hair, noticeable makeup, and fun-loving attitude-represented a new freedom for women. The old restrictions on dress and behavior were being overthrown. Highly publicized flappers shortened their skirts, drank illegal alcohol, smoked, and otherwise defied society's expectations of proper conduct for young women.

Is this glamorous and rebellious image of the flapper a true representation of the 1920s woman? Not entirely. In order to be a flapper, a woman had to have enough money and free time to play the part. College girls, unmarried girls living at home, and independent office workers most frequently presented themselves as flappers. However, the average woman did wear the fashions made popular by flappers. As often happens, unconventional clothing was gradually integrated into fashion and adopted at all income levels. Sears, Roebuck, and Company claimed that nine million families made purchases from its catalogs in 1925. The clothing sold through catalogs was based on high-fashion styles from Paris.

Flappers popularized slender, boyish fashions. Figures were flattened with undergarments. Hemlines, straight or uneven, gradually crept up, and waistlines dropped. High-fashion evening wear in tubular, sleeveless styles featured beading and fringe. Day dresses copied the evening lines, if not the trims. Short skirts were complemented by flesh-colored stockings worn with decorative shoes. Hair was cut close to the head and covered outdoors by the close-fitting cloche hat. It became respectable to wear makeup. Between 1920 and 1930, women's appearance changed completely.

Women found their lives changed in more than appearance, however. Society now accepted that women could be independent and make choices for themselves in education, jobs, marital status, and careers. Women's spheres had broadened to include public as well as home life. The "new woman" was on her way.
At the time of this article's publication, Louise Benner worked as a curator of costume and textiles at the North Carolina Museum of History.

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"A New Woman Emerges" by Louise Benner Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Spring 2004. Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of History A woman of 1920 would be surprised to know that she would be remembered as a "new woman."

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I think this is a great website to get information from for this topic. The website provided facts on a timeline that got m attention. I got information that i could not find on other websites; explained the life of women from 1920-1940 and the whole flapper era. I got good information about the 19th amendment and how women played a role politically vs not being involved at all.

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In the 1920s to 1940s, women started to more fully express their new gender norms. They expressed these new roles in varying ways. The right to vote helped to increase women's presence in the...

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This document is an advertisement about a women's beauty product for complexion.  It reveals the shift towards values focused on women's independence and appearance, and away from traditional household ("homely") woman.  This article displays the rise of modern technologies and consumer culture with beauty and appearance becoming a major focus in people's lives. It also shows the increasing importance of public advertisement to promote these consumer goods.  I believe this ad is a good representation of the new, modern culture and society that pegged the 1920s the "Roaring 20s" in America.  This contributed greatly to consumer culture and overall economy in the United States which helped women gain a more independent role in society. However, I think it contributes to a negative outlook on a greater value and focus on appearance and beauty for women.

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This primary source is a picture of flappers.  Flappers were young women who wore "scandalous" clothing and were known for defying traditional values and views of women in society.   They cut their hair short and were considered "rebels" to many traditional people and caused lots of controversy.  I think they are very admirable for having the courage to defy tradition and go against the popular belief to better their lives and their cause.  Although they seem "scandalous" or that their methods of achieving their goal inappropriate, I believe that they ultimately had a beneficial objective and were ahead of their time.  They were very modern and helped women gain more independence and less restricted norms of appearance.  These flappers also greatly impacted the United States' culture during the 1920s and contributed to the name "Roaring 20s".

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This document is a list of the jobs/careers available to women in the 1920s.  This displays the growing opportunities given to women during the 20s especially after the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920, which gave women the right to vote.  Although the list isn't nearly as extensive as the possibilities and opportunities available to women today, it displays a great advancement in women's rights compared to previous years.  This also exemplifies women's roles in society in the workforce, which continued to increase since WWI.  I believe that this is a very positive representation of one of women's roles in society because it shows women's job opportunities which is an improvement from previous years.  This is because in the past, women were expected to strictly live as housewives and mothers, and this list of careers shows how they are able to resume more roles outside of the home, to provide for their family as men had previously been expected to do.   There were still many limits on women opportunity-wise, along with many people continued to stand for traditional views/practices, but this list shows the great advancement for women despite how small it seems.