Roles Of Women In The 1920s Essay

Twentieth century was a time period of joy and prosperity. Americans began to indulge new style and rejected many moral standards. This era was indeed full of new changes and formed the new “normality”. In fact, the one and only thing that truly did mark this era as “The Roaring Twenties” was the women. For this very reason, when it comes up to learning about the twentieth century, women is the topic that interests me the most. Women are honestly the “main element” that gives this specific century its significance. Overall, I hope to learn in which ways did women contribute to “The Roaring Twenties”, and how it affected society in the long-term. In order to understand how women drastically brought about change in the 1920’s, we must first have a brief understanding of an ideal women before this time period. So, before the 1920’s women were seen as housewives. They were to “work” (clean, prepare food, etc…) home, and wait …show more content…
To begin with, let’s just make one thing very clear: women, during WWI, changed. Therefore, when the war ended men began to come back and seek for society to be the same, but they were wrong. They perhaps found their wife, sisters, mothers, (etc…) working and wear pants. Women of course didn’t feel nothing wrong in the way things changed, but men did. The men in fact wanted everything to go back how it was, but how could they if society found a “new normality”? Nonetheless the president began to support women's suffrage and soon: “The 19th Amendment: The 19th Amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and was ratified on August 18, 1920 and the Women's Suffrage Clause gave the right of women to vote.” (Linda Alchin). Yes, during the 20th century women were finally able to vote and had political power. This was simply the the start of a whole new chapter for women and