The Changing Roles Of Women In The 1920's

As said by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, "When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition." (goodreads.com) Women’s roles have changed quite a bit since the olden days. Women have received more rights, such as, the right to vote. Women have also travelled into the work field and can now do jobs that were considered a “man’s” job. Also women have joined together and became activists. Roles of women have changed drastically over the last decades in order to get to where women are now; this can be seen most prominently through women’s rights, the ability for women to gain and maintain a career, and action taken towards women becoming activists. The roles of women have changed drastically and can be seen through their
Women petitions and fought for the right to vote for years. It started all the way in the 1800s. They fought tirelessly until finally on August 18th, 1920 women got the right to vote. (19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)). Even all the way back in the 1800s women have taken the roles of activists. They knew what they wanted and fought for. For example, the first quote in this paragraph talked about how women fought for the right to vote. An article said, “When women marched on Washington almost 60 years later to demand equal pay and greater political power, they did so in an ostensibly more inclusive environment” (The Women's March on Washington Won't Be the First Time Women Marched on the Capitol, but It Could Be the Most Inclusive). Women have also fought for equal pay. Women might not have equal pay in some places, but they aren’t stopping until they get it either. As said in the paragraph before on average women make $0.77 to every dollar a man makes at certain places. So women still aren’t quite there yet, but they won’t stop until they get equal pay. An article said, “Perhaps the most famous of these is the 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade. On the eve of President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, 5,000 women marched to protest the exclusion of women from the “political organization of society” (The Women's March on Washington Won't Be the First Time Women Marched on the Capitol, but It Could Be the Most Inclusive). Women’s parades, marches, etc have been a thing women have done to protest for a long time. Protesting has always been part of women’s roles and always will be. It is natural for people/women to fight for what they believe in. Especially when it comes to political affairs, such as when they protested President Woodrow Wilson and most recently President Donald Trump. Also women have fought for equality