What Was The Role Of Women In The 1920's
History Research Paper
The 1920’s had enormous potential for the U.S, America was the world’s superpower, American’s had luxurious houses, cars and high standards of living. Although the U.S gained a lot of prosperity in this year, there was still remaining problems like inequality that steamed from the past. The 1920’s was a dramatic and radical change to American life and even more dramatic change for women. Women have tried to gain freedom, independence and equality of man since man put labels on women and put them into a generalized categories that women have had to escape. In the 1840’s change for women became present from feminist reforms and kept growing through the years into a radical change for women in the 1920’s because …show more content…
Women’s roles in America in the 1920’s changed the most because media help propel women and get them informed about women expressing their independence through fashion, more women seeking education and employment through this time period and the nineteenth amendment being passed for women’s suffrage,
The late 1840’s through the early 1900’s was a huge time period of growth for women, though this is just a short time period of hard work thousands of women put in to make a change. Decades and centuries prior to the 1840’s women and some men, usually of the same class, protested, created reform movements, economic protests and more. The reforms created in America blossomed into pressure groups where they would discuss “women question”, these groups would talk about how the world was made for man and man ruled the public world and women ruled the private world in their homes, recognizing the only way to bring women into the man’s world was to challenge man’s social norms. This realisation brought …show more content…
These two women were pioneers in achieving many social reforms in communities and workplaces across the country. They were led by its first general secretary, Florence Kelley, the National Consumer’s league exposed child labor and other immoral working conditions. During the early 1900s, Kelly led the League in the pursuit of protecting in-home workers,often including whole families, from terrible exploitation by employers, promote the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, write and then champion state minimum wage laws for women, defend and ultimately convince the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 10-hour work day law in the landmark Muller v. Oregon case of 1908, and advocate for creation of a federal Children's Bureau and federal child labor restrictions. Kelley, Addams and Lowell are only one example of women’s voices beginning to be heard, and drastic change helping modern Americans. (History NCL. National Consumers League. NCL.
The 1920’s had enormous potential for the U.S, America was the world’s superpower, American’s had luxurious houses, cars and high standards of living. Although the U.S gained a lot of prosperity in this year, there was still remaining problems like inequality that steamed from the past. The 1920’s was a dramatic and radical change to American life and even more dramatic change for women. Women have tried to gain freedom, independence and equality of man since man put labels on women and put them into a generalized categories that women have had to escape. In the 1840’s change for women became present from feminist reforms and kept growing through the years into a radical change for women in the 1920’s because …show more content…
Women’s roles in America in the 1920’s changed the most because media help propel women and get them informed about women expressing their independence through fashion, more women seeking education and employment through this time period and the nineteenth amendment being passed for women’s suffrage,
The late 1840’s through the early 1900’s was a huge time period of growth for women, though this is just a short time period of hard work thousands of women put in to make a change. Decades and centuries prior to the 1840’s women and some men, usually of the same class, protested, created reform movements, economic protests and more. The reforms created in America blossomed into pressure groups where they would discuss “women question”, these groups would talk about how the world was made for man and man ruled the public world and women ruled the private world in their homes, recognizing the only way to bring women into the man’s world was to challenge man’s social norms. This realisation brought …show more content…
These two women were pioneers in achieving many social reforms in communities and workplaces across the country. They were led by its first general secretary, Florence Kelley, the National Consumer’s league exposed child labor and other immoral working conditions. During the early 1900s, Kelly led the League in the pursuit of protecting in-home workers,often including whole families, from terrible exploitation by employers, promote the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, write and then champion state minimum wage laws for women, defend and ultimately convince the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 10-hour work day law in the landmark Muller v. Oregon case of 1908, and advocate for creation of a federal Children's Bureau and federal child labor restrictions. Kelley, Addams and Lowell are only one example of women’s voices beginning to be heard, and drastic change helping modern Americans. (History NCL. National Consumers League. NCL.