Prohibition and Women in the 1920s

Lesson Snapshot:

• Women formed 50% of the US population
• Before WWI middle-class women led restricted lives
• Better job opportunities for women after WWI
• They moved from domestic services to industrial jobs
• WWI had given women experience of skilled factory work
• 19th amendment in 1920
• It gave women the right to vote
• Young women who came to represent the carefree attitude of the Jazz Age (1920s)
• Women’s fashion became a personal expressions of their budding independence
• Women were still paid less than men, even when they did the same job

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