1920's Women
by; Kylee Thompson
challenges during the late 1800's to early 1900's(society)
They had many obligations and few choices that they could make. The work the women do during this time period are compared to a form of slavery. The men mostly controlled the women. They mostly had one purpose of life, which was finding a husband, reproduce, and then serving him the rest of their lives. If women were to decide to remain single, she would be ridiculed and pitied by the community.
challenges during trying to win the right to vote
In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Suffrage Association(NSA). Later Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and others formed the American Woman Suffrage Association. but, not until the Nineteenth Amendment passed in 1919 women throughout the world would gain the right to vote. Women's organizations worked to gain the right to vote, they also worked for broad-based economic and political equality and social reforms. From the years 1880 to 1910, the number of women employed in the U.S. increased from 2.6 million to 7.8 million.
Impact of 19th amendment had or didn't have on women
When they achieved suffrage, they were able to have a stronger and relevant voice in government and social change.
1920's Fashion Trends
Flappers
Hair Accessories
In the 1920's women gained their freedom and independence. The fashion trends were the shorter, low-waisted dresses. The boobed hairstyles, cloche hats, the casual, haphazard fashion, scarves and stockings are the main designs of this era.
Swim Suits
By the 1920's women's bathing suits were down to a one piece garment with a long top that covered shorts. Matching stockings were still worn, but vintage swimwear began to shrink and more and more skin was exposed.
Film and Entertainment impacted behavior with women in the 1920's
Lillian Gish
Lillian was 6 years old she first appeared in front of an audience. For the next 13 years, she and Dorothy appeared before stage audiences with great success. Actually, had she not made her way into films, Lillian quite possibly could have been one of the great stage actresses of all time. Ultimately, though, she found her way onto the big screen. In 1912, she met famed director D.W. Griffith. Impressed with what he saw, he immediately cast her in what was to be her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912).
Marion Davies
Marion began her career as a chorus girl in New York City and eventually found herself in the famed Ziefeld Follies. But she wanted more than to dance. Acting, to Marion, was the epitome of show business and aimed her sights in that direction. Her first film was Runaway, Romany (1917).
Jane Winton
Gorgeous Jane Winton was billed as the "Green-eyed Goddess of Hollywood". She was very high up the list of credits. Her beauty was tailor-made for playing patrician socialites and she blew through many roles in both comedy and drama. Her most famous role, was as Donna Isabel in Don Juan (1926).
Changes in drinking habits of women and the influence of speakeasies of behavior of women in the 1920's
Prohibition, or the Noble Experiment, would come to be known as a failure: People drank anyway, many thoroughly, and newspaper headlines were littered with fresh incidents of gangster violence. But the movement did succeed in one critical way: Saloons shut down. And in their place came a new social drinking culture, where men and women imbibed together at hidden speakeasy bars.
“In the 1920s, women became people,” Murdock said, noting that the glittering picture of flappers in fur coats was mostly limited to big metropolitan areas like New York. Outside those places, drinking during Prohibition was a much more ho-hum affair. Nonetheless, the image of carefree coed drinking was a compelling one that would be immortalized in movies and other media for decades.
1920's Women in Sports
Helen Wills
Known as Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She became famous around the world for holding the top position in women's tennis for a total of nine years: 1927-33, 1935 and 1938.
Margaret Abbott
Gertrude Ederle
The Lucretia Mott Amendment
Lucretia Mott was one of the leading voices of the abolitionist and feminist movements of her time. Raised in a Quaker community, she became a member of the society’s ministry and adopted its anti-slavery views. Mott helped form the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833, and later was among the founders of the American women’s rights movement. Mott’s feminist philosophy was outlined in her Discourse on Women (1850), in which she argued for equal economic opportunity and voting rights. After helping to establish Swarthmore College in 1864, she served as head of the American Equal Rights Association.
Women in Government
who were this female firsts in government? 1932 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway, of Arkansas, becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. 1933 - Frances Perkins is appointed secretary of labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, making her the first woman member of a presidential cabinet.
For each of the individuals listed below identify when she was appointed to her government position and what her political views were at the time. Please also locate a picture of each individual.
Rebecca Felton- she was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. First, she entered the public arena through her husband's political career. She became more than just a campaign manager. She polished his speeches and wrote dozens of newspaper articles, both signed and unsigned, on his behalf.
Genevieve R. Cline- was an American jurist. In 1928, she became the first woman named to the federal judiciary, serving as a Judge for the U.S. Customs Court.
Ophelia Wyatt Caraway- Was the first woman elected to serve a full term as a U.S. Senator. Caraway represented Arkansas. She was the first woman to preside over the Senate. She won reelection to a full term in 1932 with the active support of fellow Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr..., of neighboring Louisiana.
Jeanette Rankin- Was an American Politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold national office in the U.S. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. Rankin was also instrumental in initiating the legislation that eventually became the 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting unrestricted voting rights to women.