Women In The 1930's

Women of the 1950’s through the 1960’s are ridden with male oppression and self-esteem issues. The book Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates and an episode of Mad Men titled The Shoot have a lot in common. The differences and similarities between the leading women in both of these stories from the 1950’s show that times are different today. The women of the 1950’s had a dream for the future and their dream has finally become a reality for American women. From Mad Men, Betty Draper’s dream of becoming a model and in Revolutionary Road, April Wheeler’s dream of traveling the world are actual realities for women today. Their dreams show similarities, differences and the “American Dream” that every woman has.

When manufacturing plants started booming, they found business. Women became valuable factory workers because of their ability to complete complex tasks in the work place. Also, having willingness to labor for an inexpensive pay rate because they were in need boosted their chances of employment. In fact, employers needed them and were happy at the fact that they weren 't too costly to hire. In the document, Morals of Manufactures (1837), it states, “Many of the girls are in the factories because they have too much pride for domestic service.”(Chapter 9 Page 223) As stated before, women were looked over as far being capable of anything else other than a house wife and or mother. Some women worked for pay, as well as to prove that they were more than what society labeled them. This allowed women to make their own money and not be forced to completely live off their husbands. Also, this gave women a freedom and sensibility to become more independent.

The 1930 time period was not equal for women compared to men. They had different roles of what women were expected to do in their jobs and at their homes. . Women were expected to come home and do everything like cleaning and making dinner. If they had children, then they were expected to take care of them after they finished working. They had to make sure that dinner was made for the whole family. They had to make sure that the house was clean. The women were treated unfairly in the 1930’s compared to now in the 2000’s.People like Abagail Adams felt like the women were not treated as equal as the men. "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If

At the start of the decade, society and the way people lived changed drastically. Women specifically were viewed in a different way. Before the 1920s, women were portrayed as the “typical housewife”. Women were supposed to stay home, cook, clean, and raise the children. During the 1920s, women were changing the culture and the stereotype of a “typical housewife”. Women began to go

The 1920’s which was also called the Roaring Twenties was a era of economic prosperity and dramatic social change. The 19 amendment that was ratified on August 1920 gave the right of women to vote and the impact of World War I resulted in women questioning traditional morals and values, becoming rebellious. When men left for the war it caused women to have new jobs such as working in factories. Also, “the number of women attending college rose to 10% of the population by the end of the 1920's." Due to women having the opportunity to have jobs and go to college women became more mobile. The corset limited women to be mobile in this era which caused the production of coresets to quickly decline. Less women wearing corset made their figure to be more boyish and straight. The women of this era was called the Flappers, free spirited women, representing the new change of how women looked. The Flappers “lacked hips, breasts, and a defined waist”. They would dress in dresses above their knee and ankle showing more legs and having bare arms. They would also stray away from having long hair and cut their hair into a bob to symbolize freedom and independency. As a reason of women questioning traditional values they began to drink, smoke and be more sexual in this era. The 1920’s was also the age of Jazz which influenced women to go out and dance and women having more flamboyant and exuberant moves. In the 1920’s to be equal among men they had to have a figure of men,

the house becoming the homemaker once the war was over. The 1950s has also been

During the 1930s women is not treated equal with men and they are very different with each other. The amount of women actually getting jobs are less likely to men getting jobs. Fashion is also very different, women are in plain dresses while men are in blue denim jackets. Women during the Great Depression are actually depressed because they can not get jobs and their wages are half as as much as men. Men gets good jobs and amazing wages but at least both still got their fashion.

During the first World War I women were left at home to try and figure out how they were going to care for their families. Their husband, father, and brothers were sent off to war. Many companies around the United States were left with production needs and little to no employees to do the job. In a time period, where women are expected to be confident and independent, they had to also realize they had little to no power in society. They had societal rules that they must stay at home to cook, clean, and care for the children. With the men who were prominent in their lives coming and going from war. These factors caused the birth of a new era. This is the era where women were emerging. Women were changing by being more independent sexually and expressing their emotions through music, poetry, and movies.

Have you ever thought about how women suffered during the 1920’s? How women suffrage impacts today’s society? Women in the 1920’s suffered more than they do today. They didn’t have the same rights as men, they couldn’t vote or run for office. In today’s world women still suffer even if they have all the rights men do. Women suffrage was a substantial impact in the 1920’s and still is in today’s world.

Women worked in munitions factories and overseas as nurses. The suffrage groups finally received attention and more rights for the women’s big part in the war. The first law allowing women to vote, was the Military Voters Act of 1917, which allowed nurses and women in the armed services to vote in the federal election. Then on September 20, the same year in 1917, the Wartime Election Act was passed which extended to allow women with male family members in the war, to vote. In 1918, the right to vote in federal elections extended to all white Canadian women over the age of 21. Provincially, women feminists and suffragists like Nellie McClung and Cora Hind won Manitoba women the right to vote in provincial elections. Finally, by April 1920, the last province Quebec joined in, and all women could vote excluding those who banned because of racial

The 1920’s was an era of dramatic political and cultural change, where many Americans lived in cities rather than farms. Many inventors came to be noticed as new cars were invented and as music entered the entertainment industry. A new style of music was invented mainly in the African American community, creating the Harlem Renaissance; which was an evolution of music and entertainment in Harlem, New York City. The women of America began to evolve in the 1920s, adding new styles to our fashion industry and changing the way women dress, act, and are portrayed in society for generations. Women were viewed before the 1920’s as innocent housewives, that made little to no money, as they often relied on their husbands’ for income. Women also had little to no rights, such as voting rights, which many women began to protest. Women of the 1920’s through the 1930’s influenced and impacted society by transforming their looks from innocent housewives to a sexually liberated generation of women, increasing the working rate to twenty-five percent by working in factories and the telemarketing business, and participating in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in which they protested for their rights which then influenced the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Around the beginning of the 20th century men and women had very specific gender roles. Women in the past were usually looked at as the homemaker types. Very few women had jobs of any type during this

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

The women’s suffrage acts had also taken place in the years before this era, so women had only recently gained the right to vote and other liberties. This could also be a factor to their status in the 30’s, and how people were still accustomed to women having lesser

Change of Attitudes Toward the Role and Status of Women During the 1920's and 1930's