https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1 School Work - Humanities en-us 2016-07-22 03:13:40 UTC 2017-05-17 10:11:38 UTC hello@padlet.com jesfoster97 https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116799133 In America in the 1920's there were significant changes made towards women and their rights. These significant changes were shown throughout the political system, woman's Homelife, the workplace and in the education system. These changes were put into place due to many women believing that it was their right and duty to have a say in their countries political matters. The recognition that political decisions affected their daily lives pushed the political system to enable woman to have rights such as the right to vote, the woman's right to vote was finalised in 1920.The woman's right to vote is under the nineteenth amendment and even after being given the right to vote some woman still refused to vote under the reason that men and women roles should not overlap. ]]> 2016-07-22 03:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116799133 jesfoster97 https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116800072 By the end of the decade, women embraced the nineteenth ammenment and women were represented in local, state, and national political committees. The women that were active in politics in 1929 still had little power, but due to there contribution more emphasis began to be put on social improvements, such as protective laws for child labor and prison reform. This was the beginning of the journey to actual political equality.]]> 2016-07-22 03:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116800072 jesfoster97 https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116800438 Education was taking a slow turn towards changing as many people whom still had objectives regarding women attending college. Most of the Woman’s College students became teachers or nurses, as these were considered suitable professions for women. North Carolina State College 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 graduate with a degree."]]> 2016-07-22 03:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116800438 jesfoster97 https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911376 House work was found difficult by the majority of women in the 1920s. As lots of women in rural areas had to live without electricity. 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]]> 2016-07-25 05:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911376 jesfoster97 https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911398 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.]]> 2016-07-25 05:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911398 jesfoster97 https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911423 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.]]> 2016-07-25 05:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911423 jesfoster97 https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911453 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.]]> 2016-07-25 05:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911453 jesfoster97 https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911495 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.   ]]> 2016-07-25 06:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jesfoster97/kgckwgmz5zg1/wish/116911495