Middle Class Women In The Early 1900's

Women were always faced specifically in history by men until they became equal to them. In the story “The yellow wallpaper” the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman says some things about the way women were treated by men back then in the 19th century. Women’s roles and place in the 19th century American society are very humiliating, rational for this society and weird. Women back then were treated as “something” not as “someone” that is to say useless beings, that do not have brains.

In the early 1800s, women were second-class citizens. Women were expected to restrict their area of interest to the home and the family. Women were not encouraged to have a real education or pursue a professional career. Also, women were considered unequal to their husbands and all males legally and socially. The day-to day lives of men and women were quite clearly divided during the late 1800s. Woman in the late 1800s were treated inhumane because of society, class, and their rights.

The history in the 1800s was really rough then now days because they had the Nez Perce war going on and at the same time, we had problems with woman not being able to vote, and the Immigrants were all looking for jobs. As I said earlier about women not being able to vote was a big step back for woman, not so much for men as they didn’t want women to vote. As the author said in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights”(w.i.t.p.n.). Woman were treated imperfect towards men all because they were a different gender, which is unacceptable back in the 1840s and would be now if it happened because we should all be treated the the same and have the same rights. As it says in the text “In order to earn revenue from their land

The women activists of the era in the early 1900-1920s have provided awareness into the problems of the progressive era and also into the role of women as it was changing in public life. In the early 1900s, America was confronted with the effects of industrialization that was occurring, the growing importance of economic power, and urbanization of the cities, and a high rate of new immigrants. The changes mentioned above created fears especially in women that traditional values were being lost because wealth was more important. The was a growing desire among the women in society to change the negative effects of industrialization and to convince the government to care more about the social well-being of the people which was eventually known

Women weren’t always looked at, as what they are today. Back in the 1930’s women were expected to cook, clean, and taking care of the children. There were expectations that girls were to act like girls and stay at home. The men were looked at as the main financial staples in the home. When a woman worked, they were looked down on as poor. It was rare to find a woman working. Few ladies applied for jobs and men were usually chosen over men, despite the qualifications that the woman had. In all women had been the underdog. Women had education up to a GED, but very little had a degree, even though higher education was encouraged. As now women are encouraged to work now, but in the 30’s women were encouraged to get a man that can work rather

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.

The 1920s were a time of change. The years that preceded were filled with new technology, inventions, and mass media. A new way of life was created. Although these advancements may seem beneficial to us, there were unforeseen consequences that affected the women of the 1920s and beyond. Popular culture in the 1920’s including movies, magazines, and advertisements transformed the way in which Americans viewed women. Some of these depictions liberated women, but they also constrained them.

Now in this precise year and day, you may view women as a strong and powerful person but was it always like that? In the 1920s, was the year women finally got the right to vote after all the campaigns made and reforms performed. In all some were still housewives while some felt the need to work in order to provide money for the family or themselves. Not all were married and had a husband to provide for them. Many obstacles had to be faced in order to be where we are today. Females faced inequality with men, but that did not stop them from accomplishing what they desired. Jobs and education in the 1920s were limited to women.

American Women in the era of 1890 through 1925 had a difficult time getting and having opportunities due to the preconceived notions made of them. Women made drastic changes during this time period, industrialism and the war had a lot to do with it but politically and economically their rights were not yet given to them, Although women were as intelligent as men they did not earn the equal rights as to men.

The years Two thousand and fourteen (2014) to eighteen (2018) reminds those who attended a great war. These years commemorate the 100th anniversary for the event that occurred in 1914 to 1918. Australia and its allies fought for our nations to ensure that it would turn out to be what our country is now. At the time all of the men were sent to war at the; Western Front, Eastern Front and Gallipoli this left the women at home whether they were mothers, widowed or single, this left a lot to do for these women left back at home and also offering their services first handedly to the soldiers. The memory of these brave women are but only magnificent.

“A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.”(Nazarian, 7) Women portrayed a prominent role in history. In the early 1920s women's roles where to stay at home to cook, clean, and take care of the children. However during World War 1 women were to go to work and produce war time essentials. They where also given the chance to vote, and this is when women began to be seen as equals. Women wanted to stand on equal ground with men. In the 1920s women started a new generation by the way they dressed, and acted in society. Women fought for individuality and wanted to be seen more as humans. In the 1920s women’s roles changed society, such that women now have a more prominent, unordinary role then before; which created a different view on women. The rules that women fought against changed society’s views on them forever.

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

Socially it has been ‘concluded that contemporaries saw the interwar decades as a period of change in gender relations.’1 This serves to express the change that occurred from the social world being divided as ‘a masculine public realm and a domestic feminine one.’2 Traditionally speaking women were kept at home or chaperoned in public. The New Woman interacted with men daily in the work place and in social circles. In Australia, women were gradually recognised for their ‘independence, resourcefulness and camaraderie in the limitless spaces of the new world.’3 Often ‘unrelated and unengaged women and men went together to dances, picture theatres and cafés,’4 far from the traditional system of a young women having a chaperone,5 expressing the

The twentieth century was a time for change. It was jam packed with cultural and economic changes. Specifically the women of the 1920’s created the most discussion. They made great strides in women’s suffrage, they became a mass culture, and there was a cultural civil war between the generations. There is more to the ‘20’s woman than just being a flapper. She is free, she is outgoing, and she is rebellious. The flapper woman is just one kind of woman in the 1920’s and in this paper I hope to educate you a little bit more about her as a whole, and argue that in the twenty-first century women are becoming their own version of the flapper.

In the 1920s the role of women was now increasing. The number of working women were now increasing by 25 percent, women were now given the right to vote, instead of wearing long skirts, they started to wear clothing that was more suitable for their daily activities, also getting a divorce was more simple and so the number of divorces doubled.