Women's Involvement In The Suffragette Movement

Women’s involvement in the nineteen hundreds grew as they became discontent with the world around them. Some women became flappers, women intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior, causing many men to become nervous about this new development. Before the rise of prohibition, many women wouldn’t dare to defy the norms of society. Women decided to be involved because of the way man acted when they drank, which was unsafe for families and the women themselves. Discontent caused women to become involved in prohibition, the labor force, and in the Suffragette Movement because of the actions of men, the unfairness in the labor force, and anger with the inability to vote. With prohibition brought angry men. Many refused to give up drinking, which resulted in illegal activity to obtain the liquor. Men became violent and organized crime became common. Women believed that alcohol lured men out of their homes and fatherly duties and distracted them from focusing on providing for the family. These issues resulted in the creation of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The union focused on banning alcohol to create a better
With this new freedom came a need to provide for themselves instead of having a partner do so. The American Federation of Labor only wanted a woman doing jobs meant for them. These kinds of jobs included nursing, teaching, and tailoring. The men did not want competition in the work place so they kept them confined to certain jobs. In 1920, twenty one percent of women were in the work force, making up a small fraction of the force as a whole (Force, 1). During the Great Depression, many men saw this as an even better reason to drink freely. This also may have affected the men’s work ethic. All of these are reasons why women had to work that much harder than men, to make up for their mistakes. Women kept the economy running during the