Women

Question 1

Jobs part 2

Answer 1

Clerical and sales jobs with lower wages
More opportunities for women to join professions like accountants and dentists
Women gained more respect from male community
Fewer than 100 female accountants

Question 2

Flappers and social progress

Answer 2

Shorter skirts and Bob haircuts reject the feminine haircuts society deemed acceptable.
Seen as shameless in rural communities
New style came from new freedom women felt from income
Gave women a bad rep as sinful

Question 3

Bad things about jobs

Answer 3

Often underpaid
Sweatshop conditions
Paid little long hours
Dominated menial jobs (7,000 domestic servants)
Amount of women at college dropping fell by 5% in the 20s

Question 4

Politics progression

Answer 4

Alice Paul and suffragette movement staged high profile protests during early 20’s. 1918 North Dakota, Ohio and Indiana gave state votes to women
Wilson came out in support
145 female representatives in state legislature and 5 in House of Representatives

Question 5

Politics bad things

Answer 5

Women didn’t vote in block so it didn’t give them sway
1918 19th amendment failed to pass which would have granted equal voting rights (finally passed 1919)
145 female representatives compared to 430 male ones

Question 6

New jobs

Answer 6

1929 10 million women in paid employment
Economically independent
Resented by men
Cultural divide-North was more progressive and liberal
South-more religious and old country values

Question 7

Extra

Answer 7

Wanted ERA in 1920s but only got it in 1972

Shepard Towner act 1921 provided federal money for the health care of pregnant women