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mice and men - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. They challenged the previously accepted mores of society in every regard.
    - - between 1920 and 1929 the number of working women over the age of 15 increases by 50% to c.10 million (25% of the female population over 15)
      - however, women's wages are usually considerably lower than those of men, even where they were doing the same or similar jobs, women are subject to criticism for the way they dress and act as skirts and hair get shorter, cosmetics got cheaper and women become more economically independent
      - women start to play a growing role in the american economy, both as consumers and workers
      - women drive and smoke, fashionable clothes become cheaper and easier to obtain with a massive increase in chain stores throughout the USA
  - - - the great depression
        
        Years of mass unemployment, particularly in agriculture (small farmers suffer particularly badly, losing their land when unable to repay the money borrowed to buy it).
        
        Many businesses, including several thousand banks, go bust. There is a cycle of depression: as one company goes bust, it causes other businesses - that relied on that company or its workers for its income - to go bust.
        
        When banks go bust, people with savings in that bank lose them. This starts another cycle as savers in other banks try to withdraw their savings, causing those banks to collapse.
        
        Unemployment benefit, housing benefit, and free national health systems don’t exist. If you lose your job, you often lose your home and the whole family ends up on the streets. Many such families end up in living in cardboard shantytowns which become known as ‘Hoovervilles’.
        
        More women enter the workforce, but only because they are much cheaper than men: the average female wage being 50% that of the average male.
        
        As an escape from depression, popular entertainment, especially the cinema, continues to grow. Going to the movies provides people with a short period when they could forget their troubles.