Devin Bryant Mrs. Kemp Language Arts 11 Rough Draft 1920’s vs. Now Women in the 1920’s had totally different standards from the life of women now. The job market for women was dreadful. Single women had the highest chance to find a job, because they had to keep themselves on their feet. The women took jobs of nursing, teaching and warfare. Now women have a variety of jobs, from nursing to serving the military.
This liberty allowed them to turn their thoughts to political causes, not so much their own, but that of African American slaves. As American families prospered many families were now able to hire domestic staff to help around the house and women found they had time on their hands to do other things and involvement in their world was one such desire. Their counterparts, free African American women living in the North, although having freedom, did not have the financial liberty or the social accessibility white women were afforded, but they too sought to aid in the movement to free those still held in slavery. The African-American women also organized movements for the abolishment of slavery; however, they were involved in developing their own skills as well. Their desire for self-improvement was evident in their quest to be educated.
The lives of women on the Home Front were greatly affected by World War I The lives of women were greatly affected by the war, mainly in a positive way in the long run. Before the war upper-class women did not work, in contrast working class women worked in professions such as maids or working in factories as a way to provide for their families. Statistics show that as many as 11% of women worked as domestic servants before the war. The war also helped the social status of women dramatically in a positive manner as well as giving women the chance to work in a greater variety of jobs, although after the war they were expected to return to their original traditional housewife role. When the war broke out in August 1914, thousands of women lost their jobs in dressmaking, millenary and jewellery making.
Once the war was over and the men came home, the women had to give up their jobs and these hard-working women did not want to leave their jobs. Even though the women were not treated as well as the men, they did prove that they were just as capable as
Assignment 1 Legal rights and privileges of women in Blackstone’s day with those of American women in the mid-twentieth century bear no resemblance. Over the years women have fought long and hard to be able to obtain and maintain legal rights and privileges that the male gender is born into. Females were molded and primed to play the part as an obedient wife and mother with instruction that your thoughts and opinions are kept to yourself. The perseverance of brave women helped today’s generation of women such as myself have the same equal rights as that of men. During the Blackstone era women lost the limited amount of rights they did possess when they got married for example; “that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended
Trilogy of 1940’s Women Brittanie Glover Baker College of Clinton Township Trilogy of 1940’s Women During the 1940’s women's roles and expectations in society were changing rapidly. Women had very little say in society and were stereotyped as stay home, baby makers, and to be a good home maker and wife. The 40's were different, life for women was expanding, the men were at war and someone had to step up and take their place. Not only did the women have to take care of home, they now had to take care of the finances while still looking awesome. Women in the 40’s began entering to workforce, working in factories, labored jobs and became the attention of society in the entertainment industry, some even started to join or volunteer in
Freedom is happiness; it is the ability to create ones own happiness. The first amendments of the constitution, The Bill of Rights was written to ensure American rights and that Americans rights will not be denied these rights. In the 1900’s women were denied their basic rights as an American citizen. Margaret Sanger saw women as individuals who were stripped of basic freedom and she petitioned for what she knew was right. Letting a women control her own body is
Women carry out the triple burden in the household; the domestic labour, emotional labour, and paid labour. As shown in the item most of this work is ‘unpaid and hardly recognised work at all’. Oakley argues the only way women will gain independence and freedom in society is for the role of the housewife to be removed aswell as the present structure of the family. Wilmott and Young believed the family is symmetrical and that both husband and wife have joint conjugal roles making the family a functional institution and their research showed that men do help women with housework. Radical feminists such as Dobash and Dobash also disagree with Willmott and Young’s theory that the family is symmetrical.
However, the rights which were won seemed to exclude women. Many women did not like this and they wanted to be equal to men and they fought their own war of independence to receive that right. It started off small, but eventually grew into a big movement. Many average women would be remembered as someone great and their names would shine throughout history. One of these women was one known as Susan Brownell Anthony.
However, some women joined the work force and would do jobs that men previously had held. Some were not forced to, but they had to work as hard as they could to support their families during this difficult time. In contrast, the writer Norman Cousins commented that there was a negative opinion on the women’s presence in the workforce despite women willing to acquire a living wage. He also stated in his book that the federal government proscribed holding government jobs by both members of a married couple, and many localities stopped hiring women whose husbands with a minimum wage (Cousins 1939). Another aspect of the Depression affecting life of women was the moral argument against working-women.