Gender Roles In The 1920s

Gender roles in America have not changed that much since the 1920s. Women’s role in the 1920s was to have an arranged marriage, to take care of the home, and to have children. Later in the 1920s, women are still expected to have these same views which defines what a woman is to act like. Even in today’s time, young girls are raised to be taught these values in the toy and costume market. Expected gender definitions blocks the true meaning to be a boy or a girl. Therefore, from the 1920s to 2015, gender roles have not shifted that much due to the strict stereotype of boys are boys and girls are girls. Mary Kilbreth, the author of the article “The New Anti-Feminist Campaign,” wrote about about how the feminists movement in the 1920s was not
to support corruption like it did, but to gain equality for between women and men. In the 1920s, women who became flappers wanted to have independence and have fun, rather than feminists who wanted things to only benefit women and not America. These feminists supported “the bureaucratic burden of a Socialist “maternity benefit system,” and nationalized “education,” with “a women in the Cabinet” and the rest of it,” (Kilbreth). What these feminists wanted was very corrupt and that is not what feminism is meant to be. Feminism is meant to be a “revolt against all artificial barriers which laws and customs interpose between women and human freedom” (Kilbreth). American feminists movements in the 1920s was to break the barriers between sexuality and gender roles.