1920's Changing Culture

The 1920’s sparked a revolutionary culture change in America, one of them being women. Women were known to work domestic jobs, if they even worked at all; women were expected to stay home to tend to the children and household (Goldin,). The changing culture of the United States brought about by the nineteenth amendment, which revolutionized women. Before long, women’s roles, mindsets, actions, and appearances began to change, personified in the media by the depiction of the flapper (Benner,). The biggest attribute to the revolutionizing of women during the 1920’s was the changing culture.
The 1920’s was accompanied by a complete culture change. Companies expanded, creating new jobs, increasing the average American income; people began to have enough money to buy new kinds of products such as electric vacuum cleaners, irons, and washing machines. The 1920’s began an insurrection in societal ideals, especially among America’s youth. Young Americans started to challenge the behaviors of their parents by breaking traditions and moral codes. Jazz music became popular, along with new types of dance where couples danced closer than ever. Social transfiguring increased with help from the radio and the automobile. Dates were no longer held at home …show more content…
Typically, when one thinks of the 1920’s, he pictures Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; however, most of the parties did not get that wild. Many couples attended parties together, rather than the husband going and the wife staying at home (Zeitz,). In fact, some of these parties were very intimate as “petting” parties became popular. Sexual experimentation became popularized by the media and flappers (Zeitz,). As the Jazz age rolled around, many couples enjoyed going out dancing. New types of dancing became popular such as, the Fox Trot and the Charleston, as couples danced closer than ever, they broke the traditional framework of the waltz