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Women in the 1920s (What was the economic status for women like in 1920s?,…
Women in the 1920s
What was the economic status for women like in 1920s?
Women in the city were able to afford luxury dresses
Most women lived on farms
32% had running water
96% did their own washing
57% use washing machines
47% had carpet sweepers
men didn't earn enough so women had to look after children as well as work in the fields to earn an age
25% increase of women in work
10.6 million in 1929
By 1930 there were over 10 million women in a range of domestic jobs.
Women tended to be paid less than men.
There was a 25% increase in women working by the end of the decade
In the 1920s nearly 3.5 million women worked in domestic service.
growing female luxury trade catering to feminine affluence
There was a growing number of women in clerical jobs and similar professions.
Advertising was aimed at women as the people who took most of the spending decisions.
What was the political status for women like in the 1920s?
The nineteenth Amendment was proposed in May 1919 and was ratified in August 1920
By 1928 there were 145 women in 38 state legislatures.
Women voted the same as male relatives along regional, class, racial or religious lines during the 1920 Presidential election
early 1920s women could serve on juries in 20 states.
Women were less likely to vote than men
Attempts to pass an Equal Rights Amendment first introduced to Congress in 1923 repeatedly failed.
Two women served as state governors in succession to their husbands
Southern concerns that votes for women might lead to greater rights for blacks contributed to the delay in votes for women.
Two women had been elected to the House of Representatives in Washington
What was social status for women like in 1920s?
In 1921 Congress passed the Sheppard Towner Act
provided federal money for the health care of pregnant women
Funds were withdrawn in 1929
The spread of birth control reduced unwanted pregnancies.
The cosmetics industry grew from being worth $17 million per annum to 200 million by the end of the decade
The number of beauty parlours in New York leapt from 750 in 1920 to 3000 by 1925
Clothes had changed: the tight waisted, ankle length, voluminous dresses of the pre-war days to less knee length, lightweight dresses
In the 1920s women smoked in public and drove cars - they couldn't do this before
Henry Ford abandoned his ‘black only’ policy for cars because women wanted different colours.
Middle class women had more free time, partly through the new domestic labour-saving products
Women cut their hair shorter and wore shorter skirts
How/when/why did women achieve the vote in the USA?
Parades
They wanted to be treated equally
1919
Silent vigils
Hunger strikes
the New Departure Strategy
What were some of the key changes in women's lives in the 1920s?
25% increase of women in work
10.6 million in 1929
1914 - 100,000 divorces, in 1929 there were twice as many.
Sales of cigarettes doubled in the 1920s
What were the two American Suffrage organisations?
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
American women's suffrage assosiation
What was the New Departure Strategy?
it said the fourteenth amendment and fifteenth amendment together served to guarantee voting rights to women
Fourteenth Amendment granted universal citizenship
Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote irrespective of race