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Take the Quiz and find out if you are a Modern 1920’s Woman Circle your responses: Do you wear red lipstick? Yes or No Do you have short hair? Yes or No Do you stay out all night without permission? Yes or No Do you listen to Jazz? Yes or No Do you drive anContinue reading “So Are You a Modern 20’s Women?”

Congress establishes the Women in Industry Division of the Department of Labor in 1918.  The name is changed to the Women’s Bureau in 1920. The Bureau focuses on improving working conditions for women and children. In addition to seeking the end of child labor, it works to resolve issues affecting women in the workforce andContinue reading “What’s Good for the Goose…”

The Miss America Pageant originates from the 1920’s.  It was referred to as the “Bathing Beauty Review”. It focused on women’s physical appearance in the beginning and for many years thereafter.  Women started focusing on their personal physical beauty during the Twenties. With magazines such as Ladies Home Journal giving women advice on their appearanceContinue reading “Lights, Camera, Action”

The women’s suffrage movement started long before women were given the right to vote.  Women such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott would not live to see their movement lead to a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.  It took women serving in all capacities during World War IContinue reading “Suffering Until Suffrage”

Hidden Figures in the 1920’s: In the 1920’s women became more involved with science. Florence Rena Sabin was the first woman elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Women were being accepted into the science field and were able to work jobs that were originally dominated by men. Although women were still not beingContinue reading “Hidden Figures in the 1920’s”