1920s Women's Equality

This document shows how women were fighting for equal rights in not only in the workforce; but also equal rights socially as well. These women were worried about equal pay and that if women do not advance their status now they will never fill top executive jobs with larger salaries than the salaries that are being provided for them during the time. For example; "Because such restrictions mean the closing of opportunity to women whose ability would enable them to rise to executive positions, the business and professional women of the country are nearly a unit in opposing them" (paragraph 7). Because these women were able to fight against this inequality that in "In 1920 the National Federation of Business and Professional Women passed the following