American Women In The 20th Century

Back in the day, men did not treat women with much respect, and men did not allow women to do anything, other than being a housewife. Men took charge of women, and if women did earn any money their husband would take it away from them. Women did not have any rights, and no one did anything about it for awhile. As women did not have a say, they continued to obey the rules and tasks as told. However, the lives of women did improve during the 1920s and 1930s, as technology improved over time, there was better labour for women, and women were allowed to be a part of the political world.

I think it is important to take time and actually think about all of the advancements women have made. If you think about it we would not have some of the things we have today due to the women in past standing up for they believe in. There is a quote that I cannot remember off the top of my head, but I know that it is along the lines of saying a woman in general is powerful, but once she realizes how truly powerful she is, you better watch out. “Like Mary Richards, American women in the 1970s were figuring out how to use their new powers to craft a good life” (Collins 241). This quote is amazing because there are so many women that do not see their potential. Everything is just a matter of you can do anything you put your mind to and it was not until the 1970’s that women were starting to come around to see what they were truly capable of.

In the 1960’s the American women were limited to little respect. A women was expected to follow the mother’s footsteps without any opinion. They were to marry early start a family and devote her life to care for her husband and children. They would spend hours at the care of the children and husbands let alone the domestic chores they were expected to be done by the time the husband arrived from work. The husband would expect a clean house, pampered wife, and a meal ready on the table. While they were passionate and egger to make a change they went into riots and marches to change society for the better and enable women to make a career and work and get jobs and not only be expected to provide for a man, and finally make women equal, and not

as entering the 21st Century they already had more rights and possibilities than before but still they were struggling for opportunities of full participation and representation in all life areas

The American women were restricted in all most of daily life and workplace. In the early 20s, the women starting having a family and giving her all to homemaking. In 1960 the women were limited to have jobs or career's in result the women were to seek outside of the home to find work and educated, the American

Unfortunately, women have been held at a disadvantage for much of human history. We have been seen as vapid and less worthy than our male counterparts. We have been denied jobs and education, being told that a woman “should stay home and take care of her husband and children”. Even today, we are paid less than men doing the same job as us. Today’s female experience is better than, say, that of a woman in the 1920’s.

A Streetcar named Desire written by Tennessee William, show the reality of 1945, where women had a lower status than men thus implying a lower importance. There was a clear inequality between genders, perhaps as a function of the war and the need for everything to be “normal” again. Both the book A Streetcar named Desire, and the general society of 1945, show the same ideals of how a woman should be in order to fit into society. This is particularly the case with the film, where the American ideal has been streamlined.

Throughout history the role of women has changed and become more unique. There have been women running for president when before women were told to stay at home. America has come a long way from what we have started at. There are many spectacular changes that have arrived before women. There are more opportunities and more changes in what women want. There have been many over time and most ideas ran wild in the stories over many periods, but three come to mind: Realism, Modernism, and the Contemporary Periods. Many believe in what was actually done to help women. There are many who believe that suffrage was enough. There are; however, the way books were written in the said periods. In Realism there are two stories “A New England Nun,” and

American women’s roles greatly expanded during the 1940s when the United States entered World War II. The media and the government’s campaign urged women into the workforce as part of their war effort and patriotic duties, because workers were needed to make weapons and supplies for the war since the men were away fighting. More than six million women entered the workforce, and the majority worked in the industrial sectors in mills, factories, shipyards, and lumberyards. However, once the war ended and the America postwar years began, women’s jobs were given back to men and they were encouraged to go back home or find female occupations. The 1950’s was a time where the cult of domesticity became dominant in the United States during the twentieth century. This decade was the height of the baby boom years and women were expected to stay at home as housewives and mothers. These changing expectations were reflected in the media such as television shows, magazines, and advertisements, cookbooks, and books which helped shape and encouraged women to become housewives in the 1950’s.

The Turbulent Twenties saw a time of change in the United States that allowed oppressed groups to redefine their fight for freedom as well as their place in society. Prominent groups such as the Women Suffragist, African American, and Immigrants had fought for rights and preciously decades and had made great strides by the 1920’s, that still continue to the present day. Yet this decade marked a time for these groups to pass the torch to their younger counterparts who we redefine the fight and their image they displayed to the American public. They would make the controversial choice to discard some of the previous views of those who came before them in the fight for social equality. In their respective strategies to achieve equality from 1920-the

everything that needed to be done at home while their husbands where the ones to bring

Paid work for women moved from principally customary female-situated employments to all the more non-conventional and already male-arranged vocations. Ladies ' support in the workforce prompted them to start careers in the field dominated by male in the 20th century. Career yearnings were affected by elements, such as sexual orientation, financial status, race, occupation and instruction level, and parental desires. This paper exhibits how women developed, changed and the challenges they faced in the 20th century in America in the workforce and the advancement of ladies ' careers, improvement and profession goals during the 20th century in United States. Also, gender issues affecting women will be discussed in details during this period and how women played their role in fighting for their rights.

West was seen as a place for people to become self-sufficient farmers but now slaves

Literature played a major role in the United States of America during the 1920’s. The 1920’s was a time where art forms such as writing and storytelling prospered. Common themes among 1920’s literature were breaking tradition, the effects of World War I on society, the death of innocence, the Harlem Renaissance, the Jazz Age, and gender roles. Louise Bogan was arguably the most famed and accomplished woman poet of the 1920’s, even of the twentieth century. One of her most famous poems is “Women”, written in 1922. The short poem describes the life of a house woman. She often talks about how women sit idly by and do housework instead of “manly chores” such as farming. In 1920, all American women were given the right to vote in the country (Women in the 1920s in North Carolina).

Modern technology has rapidly evolved over the past two decades but in the beginning much of the older generations refused the advancement due to their more conservative viewpoint, yet change was occurring and there was nothing to impede it; just like society’s perspective of women. Indeed, ideas of change and progression were developing within the 1900s as more minority groups, particularly women, began to claim a voice to express the inequalities and injustices of the United States. But even so, the inconsistent stance and progression of gender roles for women depended on the time era and the society’s point of view. From early to mid 20th century, the amicable circumstances that viewed opposing women as only domestic caretakers, in conjunction