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Title: Curators Office


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Women at Work
Women at Home
Curators Office
The Changing Role of Women
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Mrs. Wakefield
  • I have taught Social Studies for the past 11
    years and enjoying challenging my students.
    Technology is an important part of learning today
    therefore, you will be creating one of these in
    class soon!!

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Women at Home


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Orphans and homelessness
  • Mothers, both married and unmarried, unable to
    care for infants, often left then on the steps of
    hospitals. Since the mid 19th c., abandoned
    children in NYC has been sent west to become
    adopted by new families. This program was called
    the orphan train, after the trains that moved
    west carrying children to their new adoptive
    families. Up to 90,000 children were sent west
    by the time the program ended in the 1920s.
    Often this was the only one option for women to
    care for their children as economic conditions
    led to homelessness.


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Womens fashion
  • The 1920s saw the emergence of three major
    women's fashion magazines Vogue, The Queen, and
    Harper's Bazaar. Vogue was first published in
    1892, but its up-to-date fashion information did
    not have a marked impact on women's desires for
    fashionable garments until the 20's. These
    magazines provided mass exposure for popular
    styles and fashions.

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Changing fashion of women
  • The feminine liberation movement had a strong
    effect on women's fashions. Most importantly, the
    corset was discarded! For the first time in
    centuries, women's legs were seen. A more
    masculine look became popular, including
    flattened breasts and hips, and bobbed hair.
    During the early 1920s, waistlines were at the
    waist, but were loose and not fitted. Women wore
    suits with long hemlines and somewhat full
    skirts, often with belts at the waist of the
    jackets. Dress and suit bodices alike were worn
    loose, even baggy.


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Grandma helps out
  • Grandparents step in to help with the children
    during the war while women enter the workforce in
    greater numbers. After the war, they gained the
    vote, and other measures of legal and political
    equality. Slowly a greater variety of jobs
    became open to them. People began to accept the
    idea that a woman could pursue a career separate
    from her role as a wife and mother.


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Making their mark in aviation
  • 1921 - Adrienne Bolland is the first woman to fly
    over the Andes
  • 1921 - Bessie Coleman becomes the first African
    American, male or female, to earn a pilot's
    license
  • 1922 - Lillian Gatlin is the first woman to fly
    across America as a passenger
  • 1928 - June 17 - Amelia Earhart is the first
    woman to fly across the Atlantic -- Lou Gordon
    and Wilmer Stultz did most of the flying
  • 1929 - August - first Women's Air Derby is held,
    and Louise Thaden wins, Gladys O'Donnell takes
    second place and Amelia Earhart takes third
  • 1929 - Florence Lowe Barnes - Pancho Barnes -
    becomes the first woman stunt pilot in motion
    pictures (in "Hell's Angels")
  • 1929 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first president
    of the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women
    pilots.

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Uniforms in the factory
  • Women who did find jobs, got paid very low
    salaries compared to men, and got very few hours.
    They were able to find jobs as school teachers,
    or in factories if they were lucky.


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Women in Film
  • In the 20s, women in film sat at the top of the
    food chain with nary a shark bite, occupying
    niches equal in the hierarchy with men. In the
    years 1912 to 1920, female stars controlled about
    twenty film companies. Women often worked as film
    editors and cinematographers. The female stars
    of short films often managed their own production
    companies and wrote, produced, and directed the
    films in which they starred.


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Women in the workplace
  • Between 1910 and 1920, Connecticut experienced a
    19.9 percent growth in the number of women
    employed with a concurrent population increase of
    23.9 percent, and a growth of 19.8 percent in the
    entire work force. However, it is clear that the
    increased number of women in the work force did
    not expand disproportionately with the growth in
    population. It is also true that the women
    workers did not take over many skilled or high
    paying male jobs.


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Women in the kitchen
  • The availability of natural gas and electricity
    to homes brought about changes. Most city
    dwellers would have had electricity by the
    1920's, but rural farm homes would still be using
    kerosene lamps for light, a wood stove for
    cooking or perhaps a kerosene stove like the one
    on the right hand wall here in the display. Gas
    stoves and a wood icebox would have been found in
    the city.


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Womens clothing
  • Women shed the heavy, cumbersome clothing.
    Skirts no longer brushed the ground some even
    rose above the knees. A typical womans dress in
    1928 had seven yards of cloth compared with
    nineteen at the beginning of the century.

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Hairstyles and Cosmetics
  • In the 1920s, the bob was the in hairstyle
    hair was cut about mid-neck length and then
    curled with curling irons, or set into a
    permanent wave.
  • Cosmetics like lipstick, eye liner, and face
    powder emerged for the first time. Unfortunately
    the science did not catch up with the demand and
    in the early years cosmetics used toxic
    chemicals, which could cause burns or scars.


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Getting the important information
  • An invention, which soon after became a popular
    fad, is the radio. Because of no invention of the
    TV, the radio was their TV. And, it really did do
    pretty much everything the TV does for us. If you
    tuned in at the right time, you could catch
    comedy shows, news, live events, jazz, variety
    shows, drama, opera, you name it, the radio had
    it!


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New styles in swimwear
  • Although there were plenty of rule-breakers,
    men's and women's swimsuits remained cumbersome
    overall until late in the 1920s. Mimicking
    streamlined '20s fashion, women's swimsuits
    became tighter sleeveless tank-style suits that
    stopped mid-thigh.

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Political activism
  • In August 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the
    US Constitution achieved ratification by the
    required number of states and became law. It had
    taken more than seventy years of determined
    effort starting with the first organized womens
    rights conference, at Seneca Falls, NY.


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Flappers of the 20s
  • The flapper was the heroine of the Jazz Age. With
    short hair and a short skirt, with turned-down
    hose and powdered knees - the flapper must have
    seemed to her mother like a rebel. The typical
    flapper was a young women who was often thought
    of as a little fast and maybe even a little
    brazen. Mostly, the flapper offended the older
    generation because she defied conventions of
    acceptable feminine behavior. The flapper was
    "modern." Traditionally, women's hair had always
    been worn long. The flapper wore it short, or
    bobbed and she used make-up. The flapper wore
    baggy dresses which often exposed her arms as
    well as her legs from the knees down.


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Women and shopping
  • The early twentieth centuries were the age of the
    independent mom-and-pop store. As residents moved
    into the suburbs created by the new street
    railways and railroads, small family-run stores
    sprang up to meet their needs. These new
    groceries, meat markets, vegetable stands, and
    bakeries typically reflected the ethnic
    demographics of the neighborhood. It was the
    womens job to do the daily shopping.

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  • http//www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/
  • http//www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhi
    story_1920ladies.html
  • http//womenshistory.about.com/od/aviationpilots/a
    /av_timeline.htm
  • http//www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/ct
    history/81.ch.07.x.htmld
  • http//www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/5
    54.html
  • Life and Times in 20th Century America series 1
    and 2
  • David, Shannon Between the Wars America 1919
    1941 2nd edition, 1979
  • Kallen, Stuart A. (ed.) The Roaring Twenties
    2002
  • Time Life Books The Fabulous Century Vol. III,
    1969
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