What Was The Role Of Women In The 1920's
Cassie Pinion
Professor Smith
AMH1020
11 December, 2015
In America, the 1920’s were a time of great social, cultural, and political change. Many people no longer lived on farms and were moving to the cities. The wealth of the nation had almost doubled in this decade. The consumer economy was booming and the market was flourishing. It was the time of the “Jazz Age,” a change in social thinking, and women began to see more equality; to name a few. Freedom began to flourish and people had begun to do what they want. The morals and upbringing of the common man began to shift and change. A new type of music started to rise in America. This music was called jazz, which introduced the people to the Jazz Age. This age lasted all the way through …show more content…
Women made many great advances during this decade. In the year 1920, an amendment was passed that allowed women to vote. Most women in this decade felt as if they deserved a place in politics; that they were intellectually capable of performing beside men. However, this idea was heavily argued. The common concept of a woman’s job was that she was meant to stay home and perform “housewife duties” such as cooking, cleaning and taking care of the children in the family. Eventually though, women made their way into local, state and national political affairs. Even with their advancement into the political field, they did not have much power in the long run of things. As time progressed they would accumulate more power but as of 1920’s, no substantial power was gained for women. Equal college opportunity was also given to women in the 1920’s. The first woman was not enrolled into a University until 1921, and it was not until 1926 that it was declared women were able to graduate beside men if they could perform to the same abilities as men. The percentage of women seen in the workforce during the 1920’s also began to steadily rise. It started to become acceptable for a woman to be seen in a retail or clerical
Professor Smith
AMH1020
11 December, 2015
In America, the 1920’s were a time of great social, cultural, and political change. Many people no longer lived on farms and were moving to the cities. The wealth of the nation had almost doubled in this decade. The consumer economy was booming and the market was flourishing. It was the time of the “Jazz Age,” a change in social thinking, and women began to see more equality; to name a few. Freedom began to flourish and people had begun to do what they want. The morals and upbringing of the common man began to shift and change. A new type of music started to rise in America. This music was called jazz, which introduced the people to the Jazz Age. This age lasted all the way through …show more content…
Women made many great advances during this decade. In the year 1920, an amendment was passed that allowed women to vote. Most women in this decade felt as if they deserved a place in politics; that they were intellectually capable of performing beside men. However, this idea was heavily argued. The common concept of a woman’s job was that she was meant to stay home and perform “housewife duties” such as cooking, cleaning and taking care of the children in the family. Eventually though, women made their way into local, state and national political affairs. Even with their advancement into the political field, they did not have much power in the long run of things. As time progressed they would accumulate more power but as of 1920’s, no substantial power was gained for women. Equal college opportunity was also given to women in the 1920’s. The first woman was not enrolled into a University until 1921, and it was not until 1926 that it was declared women were able to graduate beside men if they could perform to the same abilities as men. The percentage of women seen in the workforce during the 1920’s also began to steadily rise. It started to become acceptable for a woman to be seen in a retail or clerical