By Andreia Martins and Katherine Jackson
“New Woman”
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 Women who worked primarily outside of the house
were typically single, divorced, women of color or
poor married women.
 Many of these “new women” were active in sports,
college educated, interested in pursuing a career, and
were interested in a marriage based on equality.
 Some men were appalled at the idea of their women
working outside of the home but many middle-class
women drove the reforms of the Progressive Era.
Flappers
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 They say that during the 1920’s “a new woman was
born,” the women of the 1920’s smoked, drank, danced,
and voted. A flapper was a girl who was giddy, a girl
who took risks.
 The first time the term “flapper” was used was in Great
Britain, they used this term to describe young girls who
were not yet women.
 The flapper typically had short hair, short dresses that
were lighter to make movement easier, this was
important especially during the jazz age when energetic
dancing was very popular.
New Jobs and
Opportunities
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 During the 1920’s many women were still working at
home, however many were starting to acquire jobs
such as:
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Typists(a person who is skilled in using a typewriter)
Filing Clerks
Telephone Operators
Stenographers(a person who types what people say)
Domestic Servants
Careers for Women
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 Upper and middle-class women who were college
educated and ambitious to have their own careers
began making their own careers as:
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Social workers
Settlement workers
Public health nurses
Teachers
Librarians
Voting Rights
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 On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the
Constitution was established.
 This allowed women the right to vote and declared
their responsibilities of citizenship.
 Election day in 1920 was a very gratifying day,
because this was the day that women could exercise
their right to vote for the first time.
Bibliography
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 Article Title: Flappers in the Roaring Twenties
 Date Accessed: March 30, 2015
 Author: Jennifer Rosenberg
 Website Title: American History USA
 Article Title: Working and Voting -- Women in the
1920s
 Date Accessed: March 30, 2015
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 Website Title: Women in the Progressive Era
 Article Title: Women in the Progressive Era
 Date Accessed: March 30, 2015