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The roles of American Women in the 1920s varied considerably between the 'New Woman', the Traditionalists and the older generation. The 'New Woman', including the young Flappers, embraced new fashions, personal freedom and new ideas that challenged the traditional role of women.
Not only were women hitting a glass ceiling with job fields, but workplace discrimination and wage inequality also ran rampant throughout the ‘20s. As Gail Collins writes in her book America’s...
Flappers of the 1920s were young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous. Now considered the...
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades‑long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified...
Racism and nativism prevailed, making daily life for Black women, immigrants, and all other minority groups a struggle. While some fortunate and ambitious women rose above the challenges, many found life in modern America to be a daily toil of work, family, and basic survival.
African American women in the Jim Crow South were often denied the right to vote, but these nine women, all faculty members at the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, succeeded in registering in the fall of 1920.
20th Century. Flappers, sanitary pads and public drinking: was the 1920s a time of increased liberation for women? The 1920s may be known for being “roaring”, but what was life like for women living during this transformative decade?
In late 19th- and early 20th-century America, a new image of womanhood emerged that began to shape public views and understandings of women’s role in society. Identified by contemporaries as a Gibson Girl, a suffragist, a Progressive reformer, a bohemian feminist, a college girl, a bicyclist, a flapper, a working-class militant, or a ...
When the 19th Amendment became law on August 26, 1920, 26 million adult female Americans were nominally eligible to vote. But full electoral equality was still decades away for many women of...
"New Women" of the 1920s: they failed to vote as a block or in greater numbers than did men; their manners and morals differed sharply from those of previous generations; and their legal and economic position had