The Twenties Woman

Read Chapter 21-2 and answer the following questions. These are due by 3:10 p.m. Friday.
Title: The Twenties Woman Labels: 1920s, women's_rights

1. Note two ways women's fashions changed.
Some women wore bright waistless dresses an inch above the knees and some wore whalebone corsets. Another way women changed their fashion is the twenties is that young women cut their long hair into boyish bobs.

2. Note two ways women's social behavior changed.
A lot of women became more aggressive. Some women began to smoke cigarettes, drink in public, and talk openly about sex, which would have been unacceptable not to many years before.
3. Note two words that describe the attitude reflected by these changes.
Flapper- an emancipated young women that embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.
Double Standard- a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than women.
4. Note one way women's work opportunities improved.
Some employers hired women even after WWI because women weren't paid as much. Many female college graduates took on woman professions. Before WWI, women were strictly house wives and mothers.
5. Note two ways women's home and family life improved.
New technological innovations and institutions took some of the workload that was done by women at home. Women experience greater equality in marriage and many of them became one with their husbands.

6. Note three negative effects that accompanied women's changing roles in the 1920s.
Women had trouble controlling unruly adolescents. Although women were able to work more, they didn't get paid as much as men which meant that they were not equal and they were still very different. Women mostly had "women jobs" because they were unable to do men jobs because employers thought they were weak.