Woman's Rites
n the 1920’s many woman were fed up with how they were being treated by society. The Sheppard-Towner Act was an act that provided federal funding for prenatal care and education, including the creation of women and children's health clinics. The idea to have women vote was brought up. Married woman had jobs but didn’t hold them very well.
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Unfortunately about only 10% of woman could actually hold a job in the 20’s. Some of the jobs women were able to have or were very common to have were teachers, social workers, nurses, and librarians. And for those who were working-class ,and textile mills had been the one type of factory where jobs could be found. Farm work was considered a job too but that was very uncommon that was known to be a man’s job. "I pay our women well so they can dress attractively and get married." - Henry Ford This showed how he felt about women and working. Due to the rise in sexuality (lesbienism) it became harder for woman to be allowed to be able to live together.
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Fashion
in the 1920’s there was a lot of changes. It was referred to as the “roaring 20’s, the era of the “flapper.” Woman use to have to wear corsets under their clothing. They would dress in very colorful clothing. Dresses were lighter because there was less material to make them. Evening dresses, coats, and jackets oftenly had fun in them. All of the big department stores mailed clothing. Bob cuts were a really popular haircut in the 20’s. The haircut was really short and kind of looked like corn rolls that had a bunch of curls. The hairstyle was very popular many movie stars had the haircut as well. this time period was very classy and woman had a sense of style during this time period. Many beads were on the headbands they would were and the richer the brighter and more exotic the outfits got.
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Flappers
Young people began to model themselves on movie and sports stars who represented a glamorous new age, but they also took on many of the negative traits of their idols like smoking, bad language, immorality, and selfishness. Everyone wanted to be just like their idol, which also led to bad things.The new female culture manifested itself as the flapper and the male equivalent was the sheik.
The most familiar symbol of the “Roaring Twenties” is probably the flapper: a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what might be termed “unladylike” things, in addition to being more sexually “free” than previous generations. In reality, most young women in the 1920s did none of these things (though many did adopt a fashionable flapper wardrobe), but even those women who were not flappers gained some unprecedented freedoms.
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