The Twenties Women by Abby Hernandez

Forces that changed attitudes about women...

Hellolove17 — 2015-12-07 20:16:26 UTC

The experiences of WWI and the pull of the cities was life changing for young Americans. They were experiencing a world that was unknown to their parents. In the rebellious and pleasure seeking environment of the 20s, women began to assert their independence, reject traditional values, and demand the same freedoms as men.

Double Standard

nadeenyousif — 2015-12-07 20:19:17 UTC

Casual dating became increasingly accepted. It set principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women. Double standard required women to observe stricter standards to behavior than men did. Even though women were still challenging women's role by running wild by showing skin, and doing reckless things double standard kept them doing what they are suppose to do like cleaning, cooking, and kept up with household chores.

limits to employment opportunities

rubi_corral18 — 2015-12-07 20:34:15 UTC

During this time period women were expected to work in places where they were believed to belong for example as a nurse,teacher, and librarians. That's why when men went to war, and women started to take over their jobs, women felt good about themselves. Unfortunately, once men came back they started to take their jobs back and women were once again pushed to the side and not taken seriously in the work field.

New employment opportuinites

nadeenyousif — 2015-12-07 20:37:17 UTC

1920 produced new roles for women in the workplace and new trends in family life. Economy opened new jobs in offices, factories, stores and professions. New employment reshaped the roles of housewives and mothers. Women started taking dominance in the family taking over the roles of men.

Flappers

Hellolove17 — 2015-12-07 20:39:50 UTC

A flapper was an emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. They wore close fitting felt hats, bright waistless dresses an inch above the knees, skin toned silk stockings, sleek pumps, and strings of beads. They cut their hair into boyish bobs and dyed it jet black. They were assertive and bid for equal status with men by smoking, drinking in public, and talking openly about sex. Women began to act more "masculine" and take charge of their own lives symbolically by becoming flappers.

Skillbuilder Questions

303361 — 2015-12-07 20:43:45 UTC

1) What was the overall change in women's employment percentage between 1910 and 1930?

2) What was the most common job women did during those years, what was the least common?

View of Marriage..

Hellolove17 — 2015-12-07 20:51:26 UTC

Because women were becoming more independent, their attitudes towards marriage changed. They now saw marriage as an equal partnership, but still believed that housework and childrearing was a women's job. This was a tremendous change in tradition; women were working their way up.

"The parties were bigger, the pace was faster, the shows were broader, the buildings were higher, the morals were looser, and the liquor was cheaper."

Hellolove17 — 2015-12-07 21:02:21 UTC

Margaret Sanger/birth rate

rubi_corral18 — 2015-12-08 19:39:48 UTC

The birth rates went down rapidly in the 1920s due to the availability to info about birth control. Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States in 1916 and founded the American birth control league in 1921. She also fought for the rights of physicians to give birth-control information to their patients. Also, women's attitudes changed toward having so many children due to the fact that they were now able to work and weren't obligated to stay home and just watch the kids. This changed a lot of things for women because it gave them a new opportunity to live their lives as they wished not as they were expected to.

Role in Household

303594 — 2015-12-08 19:49:02 UTC

Social and technological innovations simplified household labor and family life. Women were no longer tied down to being stay at home moms. Innovations such as ready made cloths, sliced bread, and canned food freed women from some of their traditional family responsibilities. Although women fought to have the right to work, working class women quickly discovered the pressure of juggling work and a family. All in all, women were struggling but remained determined and persistent in changing their role in the household.

Changing family dynamics

303594 — 2015-12-08 20:03:10 UTC

Women's role was to stay home, take care of her kids, have a nice meal and a clean house for her husband. But in the 1920's family dynamics was changing. Women wouldn't just stay home and take care of the kids while the husband was at work. They would be working and supporting the family just like the husband would. Marriage was no longer 75/35, but instead a 50/50 partnership between the man and the woman.