1. 21-2: The Twenties Women

2. Women’s Fashions Brighter colors Shorter looser-fitting dresses Stockings skin-toned instead of black Pumps- instead of high-laced shoes Hair boyishly short and dyed jet black instead of long and natural (bobbed)

3. Changes in Women’s Social Behavior Flouting of tradition Greater assertiveness Smoking and drinking in public Dancing with abandon Driving cars, playing golf Casual dating

4. The Attitude reflected by fashions and behaviors Rebellious Youthful Pleasure-loving Relaxed Casual Assertive Daring Independent Equal

5. Improvements in women’s work opportunities More jobs available, including “women’s professions as well as work once reserved for men A huge demand for clerical workers, store clerks and assembly line workers

6. Improvements in women’s home and family life A reduced birth rate (birth control methods) More free time, more choices Wider availability of ready-made clothes and prepared foods Household labor simplified by innovations and inventions Schools and institutions handled more family tasks, such as looking after elderly parents and child-care Wider availability of ready-made clothes and prepared foods A view of marriage as an equal partnership based on personal choice

7. Negative Effects accompanied women’s changing roles A rising divorce rate Adolescent rebelliousness The conflict between traditional attitudes and modern ways of thinking The double standard Pressures of juggling both work and family Limited admissions to medical schools Inequality in the work place (few managerial positions, lower wages than men earned for the same work)

8. Flapper and Double Standard Flapper: One of the free thinking young women who embraced the new fashions, and urban attitudes of the 1920s Double Standard: A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women