(Changes in society) Changes in women

Question 1

Summarise women’s experience in the 1920s in one sentence.

Answer 1

On the surface, women seemed liberated but the reality was different.

Question 2

Politics - when did women get the right to vote?

Answer 2

1920

Question 3

Politics - what gave women the right to vote?

Answer 3

The 19th amendment.

Question 4

Politics - give a statistic to show little development in politics.

Answer 4

2 out of 435 delegates in the House of Representatives were female.

Question 5

Employment - there was more ___________ but not ________.

Answer 5

opportunities

managerial

Question 6

Employment - what was the expectation for most women?

Answer 6

Get married and have children.

Question 7

Employment - give statistics to show little development in employment for women.

Answer 7

Fewer than 100 female accountants

Question 8

Employment - how did the experience of black women in employment look?
How?

Answer 8

Worse

They held many of the lowest paid jobs in domestic service.

Question 9

Birth control - the __________ government was __________ towards women.

Answer 9

Republican

Unsympathetic

Question 10

Birth control - what gave federal funding for maternity care?

Answer 10

The 1921 Sheppard-Towner Act

Question 11

Birth control - what did the 1921 Sheppard-Towner Act do?

Answer 11

Gave federal funding for maternal care

Question 12

Birth control - who was a highly contentious figure in birth control?

Answer 12

Margaret Sanger

Question 13

Birth control - what did Margaret Sanger use to support her claims/demands (CONTEXT)?

Answer 13

Popular ideas of eugenics at the time.

Question 14

Flappers - how did the media portray women?

What did this consist of?

Answer 14

Flappers portrayed liberated young women who attended public places/parties unchaperoned and liked to drink & smoke.

Question 15

Flappers - what is the reality of the liberated social behaviour that flappers portrayed?

Answer 15

It wasn’t reflected in professional jobs or equal opportunities.

Question 16

Flappers - who are icons/heroins of the time?

What did they do?

Answer 16

Coco Chanel and Clara Bow

Reinforce the flapper lifestyle

Question 17

What had remained popular throughout this time regarding expectations surrounding women’s role?

Give evidence.

Answer 17

Traditional views

Middletown survey of 1929: 89% of girls said they’d like a job but would give it up after marriage.

Question 18

What role did most women have in society?

Answer 18

Domestic servants & financially dependant on men.

Question 19

Birth control - what is to be noted about illegal abortions?

Answer 19

50,000 women died from them in 1929

Question 20

Politics - how was the 19th amendment limited?

Answer 20

Many women voted the same as their husband.

Question 21

Employment - what did many women claim to prefer in terms of employment?

Answer 21

Being housewives

Question 22

Flappers - who was the position of flappers limited to?

Answer 22

Middle-class women

Question 23

Flappers - who was against flappers?

Answer 23

Rural, conservative women that participated in the prohibition movement & women’s temperance - they wanted to preserve America’s morals.

Question 24

Birth control - who was Margaret Sanger?

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Answer 24

Campaigned for birth control and involved in making abortions safe, once being arrested.

Favoured eugenics which she used to defence her argument in her book ‘Women and the New Race’.