1. Chapter 13 Section 2 Pages 440-443
The Twenties Woman
Chapter 13
Section 2
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2. Objectives
Explain how the image of the flapper embodied the changing values and attitudes of young women in the 1920s.
Identify the causes and the results of the changing roles of women in the 1920s.

3. Main Idea
American Women pursued new lifestyles and assumed new jobs and different roles in society during the 1920s

4. Why It Matters Now
Workplace opportunities and trends in family life are still major issues for woman today.

5. One American’s Story
Zelda Sayre is the model of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s independent, unconventional, ambitious female characters.

6. WOMEN AT TURN OF THE CENTURY
WOMEN IN THE 1920s

7. Flapper

8. The Flapper - an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.

9. 1920 Hair styles

10. January, 1923 How is the style of the 1920s reflected in this magazine cover?

11. Anti-Flapper Laws
Utah - Fine or imprisonment for wearing skirts higher than 3”above the ankle
Virginia - Woman can’t wear shirts or evening gowns displaying more than 3” of throat
Ohio - No neckline more than 2” in depth & no garment composed of any transparent material to be sold

12. WOMEN BEING ARRESTED IN 1922 FOR WEARING REVEALING BATHING SUITS

14. THE NEW WOMAN OF THE 1920s
1872
1926

15. The uniqueness of the flapper was that certain already existing cultural elements became normal for:
A) Big city, upper class, women
B) Minority women
C) White middle–class women
D) Small isolated rural areas
E) White, poor, rural women

16. Young Women Change the Rules
Social behaviors changed
Smoking cigarettes
Drinking
Dating – courtship
Danced with abandon
Marriage of equals
Housework and child-rearing are the exception

17. Young Women Change the Rules
The Double Standard
The flapper is more image than widespread reality
A set of principles granting greater dating freedom to men than to women.

18. Women Shed Old Roles
College grads turn to “women’s professions” teachers, nurses and librarians
Big business
Typists, filing clerks, secretaries, stenographers, and office-machine operators.
Flying planes, driving taxis, and drilling oil wells
1930 = 10 million working
Few managerial positions and unequal pay

19. Salary Parity
In 1998, women earned 73 cents for every dollar earned by men ($25,862 compared with $35,345), not statistically different from their all-time high in this regard of 74 cents ($23,710 versus $32,144) in

20. Salary Parity
Women come closest to attaining earnings parity with men during their younger years among 25-to-34-year olds, women earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men in 1998 ($25,556 compared with $31,262).

21. Women Shed Old Roles The Changing Family Declining birthrate
Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth-control clinic in the US
Ready-made clothes, sliced bread, and canned food
Public agencies for elderly, public health clinics, and workers’ compensation

22. Women Shed Old Roles Greater equality in marriage
More romance and companionship
Children attending school, not working
Parents relying on child-rearing manuals and experts
Teens study and socialize with other teens
Increasingly resist parental control