CHAPTER 13 SECTION 2

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CHAPTER 13 SECTION 2

• THE TWENTIES WOMAN
• MAIN IDEA
• American women pursued new lifestyles and assumed
  new jobs and different roles in society during
  the 1920s.

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Young Women Change the Rules

• In the rebellious, pleasure loving atmosphere of
  the 1920s, many women began to assert their
  independence
• Demanded the same freedoms as men
• Rejected the values of the 19th century
• FLAPPER- young women who embraced the new
  fashions and urban attitudes of the day
• Close fitting felt hats, bright waistless
  dresses, skin toned stockings, sleek pumps,
  strings of beads, boyish bob haircuts

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DOUBLE STANDARD

• Women became more assertive
• Magazines advertisements promoted the flapper
• Flapper became more of an image of rebellious
  youth than reality
• 1920s morals loosened only so far
• Double Standard-set of principles granting
  greater sexual freedom to men than to women
  required women to observe stricter standards of
  behavior than men did

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Women Shed Old Roles at Home and at Work

• Booming industrial economy opened new work
  opportunities for women in offices, factories,
  stores
• Women were often replaced with men returning from
  war
• College graduates returned to womens
  professions teachers, nurses, and librarians
• By 1930 10 million women were earning wages but
  few rose to managerial jobs still earned less
  than men

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The Changing Family

• Birthrate dropped slightly in the 1920s
• Birth control was more widely available
• First birth control clinic 1916
• Social and technological innovations simplified
  household chores
• Stores had ready made clothes, sliced bread, and
  canned foods

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• Innovations freed housewives from traditional
  family responsibilities
• Women were granted greater equality in marriage,
  based more on romance
• Children spent time in school
• Women adjusted to the changing roles but
  struggled with rebellious teens

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• Conclusion
• Education and entertainment reflected the
  conflict between traditional attitudes and modern
  ways of thinking