The Flappers

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The Flappers

• The Flapper was the new emancipated young woman
  who embraced the new urban culture of the 1920s
• Characteristics
• Felt hats
• Bright colored dresses worn above the knee
• High heels
• Lots of jewelry
• Short bobbed hair cuts, dyed hair black
• Lots of make-up
• New assertive attitude
• Smoked, drank, cursed, very forward in public

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• Despite all the noticeable changes, a double
  standard still existed
• Post-WWI economy opens up new doors for women
• Millions of new jobs opened, some were
  stereotypical womens jobs(teaching, librarians,
  secretary, etc.)
• New jobs included police officers, pilots,
  lawyers, bankers
• They were not being paid or treated as equals in
  the workplace
• American family changes due to this as well. It
  was now seen as more of an equal partnership, by
  1930 US divorce rate had doubled
• Married women are still expected to keep up the
  house and raise the kids while working