Throughout the history women in America, women have been excluded from the politics and decision making in the society, but that began to slowly change as the United States approached the Roaring Twenties. Women in the nineteenth century were nothing more than housewives and mothers. They didn’t have the right to vote, they couldn’t speak to express their opinions publicly, and were mostly dependent on men. Isabel Conesa wrote, “Women were expected to have children, keep house, provide emotional support for their husbands, and in other ways, contribute to American society. However, during the twenties, those demands came to seem less and less compatible.” (p.1, Role of Women in the Roaring Twenties). The only authority women possessed in the decades prior to the twenties, was with her children and with the issues connected to homecare. From adolescence on, young girls were told that the desires of their fathers, sons, and husbands are much more important than their own. They were taught the ethic of service to family that should always be a priority for them. A girl in the nineteenth century would spend her childhood under a
Throughout the history women in America, women have been excluded from the politics and decision making in the society, but that began to slowly change as the United States approached the Roaring Twenties. Women in the nineteenth century were nothing more than housewives and mothers. They didn’t have the right to vote, they couldn’t speak to express their opinions publicly, and were mostly dependent on men. Isabel Conesa wrote, “Women were expected to have children, keep house, provide emotional support for their husbands, and in other ways, contribute to American society. However, during the twenties, those demands came to seem less and less compatible.” (p.1, Role of Women in the Roaring Twenties). The only authority women possessed in the decades prior to the twenties, was with her children and with the issues connected to homecare. From adolescence on, young girls were told that the desires of their fathers, sons, and husbands are much more important than their own. They were taught the ethic of service to family that should always be a priority for them. A girl in the nineteenth century would spend her childhood under a