During the 1920s, vast changes and advancements were made in all spheres, from politics to economics to society. The changes from the First World War still affected the new post-war America. While the men we fighting Paton’s war across Europe, the women remained home and fought a war of their own: survival without a provider. For the first time in American history, nearly all women in the United States needed to provide for themselves and their children without their husbands or the government. The nearly oppressive requirements impressed upon women in wartime America opened the door for vast changes to gender relations in the country. The largest beneficiaries of this new life were women. The 1920s were a period of liberation for women due to increased social freedom, legal rights, and economic opportunities.
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The advances in the 1920s toward gender equality, from suffrage to social freedom to education, all laid an important groundwork for the society we have today. These changes not only affected the 60 million women living in the United States at the time, but also all of the women that have come since. The progress towards political equality has led to greater gender diversity among politicians, with nearly 20% of women in Congress now, compared to 0% in 1920. This cultural advancement led to the more egalitarian society we have today. Women now own 30% of all private business and control 51% of American wealth, in part because of the educational and economic improvements made during this era. While the relative liberation of the 1920s was not enough for the women who lived then, it set the groundwork for the egalitarian society we have today. Women in the 1920s had, as Collen Moore put it, a “…determination to free themselves of the Victorian shackles of the pre-World War I era and find out for themselves what life was all
The societal evolution in the 1920s is …show more content…
The advances in the 1920s toward gender equality, from suffrage to social freedom to education, all laid an important groundwork for the society we have today. These changes not only affected the 60 million women living in the United States at the time, but also all of the women that have come since. The progress towards political equality has led to greater gender diversity among politicians, with nearly 20% of women in Congress now, compared to 0% in 1920. This cultural advancement led to the more egalitarian society we have today. Women now own 30% of all private business and control 51% of American wealth, in part because of the educational and economic improvements made during this era. While the relative liberation of the 1920s was not enough for the women who lived then, it set the groundwork for the egalitarian society we have today. Women in the 1920s had, as Collen Moore put it, a “…determination to free themselves of the Victorian shackles of the pre-World War I era and find out for themselves what life was all