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    The document discusses the changing roles and attitudes of women in the 1920s in the United States. It describes how the "flapper" embodied the newfound independence of young women through her fashionable and emancipated lifestyle. The booming post-WWI economy opened up new work opportunities for women in clerical fields and helped more women enter the workforce. Family life changed as well, with declining birth rates, children staying in school longer, and innovations like prepared foods allowing women more freedom outside the home.

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    The document discusses the changing roles and attitudes of women in the 1920s in the United States. It describes how the "flapper" embodied the newfound independence of young women through her fashionable and emancipated lifestyle. The booming post-WWI economy opened up new work opportunities for women in clerical fields and helped more women enter the workforce. Family life changed as well, with declining birth rates, children staying in school longer, and innovations like prepared foods allowing women more freedom outside the home.

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    THE TWENTIES WOMAN

    Objectives
    Explain how the image of the flapper embodied the
    changing values and attitudes of young women in the
    1920s
    Identify the causes and results of the changing roles of
    women in the 1920s

    YOUNG WOMEN CHANGE THE RULES


    The Flapper

    Flapper

    An emancipated young woman


    who embraced the new fashions
    and urban attitudes of the day

    Close fitting felt hats


    Bright waistless dresses an inch above the knee
    Skin-ton silk stockings
    Sleek pumps
    Sting of beads

    YOUNG WOMEN CHANGE THE RULES


    The Double Standard
    The Flappers attitude was not necessarily
    their mindset

    Courtship Courting
    the period in a couple's
    relationship which precedes
    their engagement and marriage

    Causal Dating
    Double Standard
    Set of principles granting
    greater sexual freedom to men
    than to women

    WOMEN SHED OLD ROLES AT HOME AND AT WORK


    New Work Opportunities
    Men Return to Work

    Breaking Through

    Big Business

    Flying airplanes
    Driving taxis
    Oil fields

    Typists
    Filing clerks
    Secretaries
    Stenographers

    10,000,000 women at work


    Glass ceiling
    temporary workers

    THE CHANGING FAMILY


    Decline in the birth rate

    Social & Technological Innovations

    Faster drop in the 1920

    Simplified household labor

    Birth-control

    Margret Sanger
    American Birth Control League (1921)
    Fought for legal rights for doctors to
    give birth-control information to patients

    Ready-made clothes
    Sliced bread
    Canned foods

    THE CHANGING FAMILY


    Children Out of the Workforce
    Teens in the 1920s studied and socialize

    Peer pressure
    Parental resistance
    Traditional attitudes vs modern ways of
    thinking

    How did the flapper embody the changing attitudes of many


    young women in the 1920s?
    How did the nations booming economy provide more work
    opportunities for women?

    How did family life change during the 1920s?

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