Women

• Many urban women in the textile industry saw their working lives deteriorate rather than improve during the 1920s
• Changes in Leisure during the 1920s

  Women started going out in groups to cinema, jazz clubs, sports arenas, drinking, smoking, listening to jazz music, dancing, and dating without chaperones
• Many poorer women in rural areas couldn't afford new appliances and were excluded from the developments in the 1920s
• Changes in Working Lives during the 1920s

  The spread of electricity and invention of new appliances such as the vacuum cleaner, washing machine, and fridge made women's lives easier and freed up some of their time
• Changes in Fashion during the 1920s

  Women started wearing looser clothing, shorter skirts, bared arms, cut their hair short, and wore prominent make-up, known as 'flappers'
• Before the 1920s, middle-class women were expected to run the household and raise the children exclusively
• Changes in Employment during the 1920s

  Many employers started employing women in increasing numbers in industry and administration after WWI, leading to 10 million women having jobs by the end of the decade
• Before the 1920s, doing household chores manually took up a lot of women's time and energy
• Before the 1920s, women were not expected to take part in sports or 'vulgar' activities
• Image of the 'Roaring Twenties' is the flapper
• Many traditionalists rejected women's new fashions, make-up, and dance styles in the 1920s, believing they were a bad influence on the younger generation and leading to moral decline
• Before the 1920s, women's employment opportunities were severely limited, with many professions closed to them
• The revolution in women's working lives during the 1920s did not occur across all social classes and regions
• Before the 1920s, all women were expected to run the household and raise the children
• Before the 1920s, poorer women were confined to jobs like nannying and cleaning with low wages
• Before the 1920s, women dressed modestly with long skirts, covered arms, and discouraged make-up
• The revolution in women's social lives during the 1920s did not occur across all social classes and regions