women in 1920's America

• What did women do during the First World War to help them with their campaign for the vote?

  worked in factories
• Women continued to campaign for the vote during the First World War. They demonstrated outside the White House. What was their message?


  it was hypocritical to fight a war to preserve democracy while denying women their democratic right to vote
• Women gained the vote in which year?

  1920
• Giving women the vote meant that the constitution had to be amended. Which Amendment was it?


  19th
• What was the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921?


  provide dup to $2.6M to help states improve maternity and child health care
• due to the Sheppard-Towner Act child mortality fell significantly. 3000 child and maternal health centres were created.
• True or False? "Women were not allowed to serve in combat roles during the First World War".


  true
• After the war, more women took on jobs in what areas of the country?

  urban
• In the 1920s, why did women have more time to work?

  there household jobs had generally been made easier by electronic goods
• By 1929, there were 10 million women in paid employment. This was how many more than in 1920?


  24%
• Women therefore started to earn more money. Women were targeted by advertisers because.......

  they were seen as the decision makers about what their family should own
• Women's role in choosing cars triggered Ford in 1925 to make their cars available in more colours than black
• Many of women's traditional behaviour rules were eased. What did women now do?

  • went out drinking and dancing without a chaperone
  • smoked in public
  • kissed in public
  • wore lots of makeup and had short haircuts
  • wear more daring clothes
• By 1929 how many divorces had there been in the USA?

  200,000
• Not all women's lives changed. What type of woman experienced these changes?

  young, middle class, living in cities
• True or False? " Women were paid less than men, even when they did the same job".

  true
• Why did the employment of women increase in the 1920s?


  they were cheaper employees
• Women may have been given the vote, but this did not give them political power
• Why did political parties not want women as candidates?

  they were considered unelectable
• Women, in which area of America, were still seen as to fill the traditional old-fashioned role of a woman?

  southern states
• For most women, what was seen as their main priority still?

  • to raise a family
  • to keep a good home for their husband
• What did conservative sections of society express about women who did seize the new opportunities that the 1920s offered?


  strong dissapproval