How were women treated in the 1920's?

Answer 1

In the 1920's the corset was discarded and more women wore masculine clothing.

Women started to be noticd and accepted as equals but they still had a long way to go. As it was in between the wars it was a time of wealth so women's fashion industry boomed with the new look for modern age women.

Answer 2

The general mood of the country was upbeat throughout the 1920's but not all people were beneficiaries of the "Roaring Twenties". Immigration in the 1920s started to become an increasingly worrying problem for the American government. The USA claimed it was the "melting pot" of all nationalities where all people were to become one people, "The American" although this was the opposite when immigrants arrived. Many of these people were unemployed and unskilled, subject to poverty and falling into the lower classes of America's capitalist society. They were treated unfairly with terrible working and living conditions and, although they may have escaped persecution or extreme poverty elsewhere, the views of becoming successful and were quite distant.

Americans began to fear the immigration system where hundreds of thousands of people arrived in the USA, refusing to swear an oath to the constitution which brought about anarchism and communism. America jumped into the Red Scare, fearing that thousands of communists were roaming the streets hoping for another revolution causing mass intolerance of the immigration system that remained existent. The government had to act proficiently which then led to Congress passing Quota Acts which immediately restricted the number of immigrants entering the USA. One example of intolerance would be the Palmer Raids where a military chief was threatened with major terror which resulted in the official deporting at least one thousands suspected anarchists or criminals to the State. It was clear during the 1920s that immigration was becoming a major problem for the government, which led to high federal government outflow on state schemes to provide work and health benefits to the thousands of immigrants existent in America's main cities.

Prejudice to the Blacks was a huge problem that too existed in American society especially during the 1920s. In the South millions of Black farmers that struggled to earn a living and survive through poverty. They were issued to discrimination and extreme racism. The Jim Crow Laws stated that all Blacks would be segregated among Whites. Benches, toilets, hospitals, schools, buses, parks and other public buildings were divided to separate the Black culture from the "Americans." There was also extreme violence against the Black Americans too and one of them took the form of lynching, which was common in the southern states.

Women were granted the right to vote in the 1920's. Women at this time were supposed to be housewives, and the man was supposed to earn the income. Women began to receive more opportunities in life and were able to go to school to earn a degree and mostly became nurses and teachers. Because of the war many women gained experience from work as they took over the mens jobs. Housework was also made easier because of electrical good such as the vacuum cleaner and washing machine.

In today's society, immigrants, blacks, and women are treated more fairly and equally than in the Roaring Twenties. Immigrants have the right to come to America to look for jobs more easily than before. African Americans were discriminated very roughly in the 1920s but today everyone is treated equally and blacks are treated as equally as whites. No more separate benches, bathrooms, etc. for the colored people. Women are treated as equally as men are today and are offered more opportunities than ever. Life today is more convenient and fair to everyone. Kids used to work starting at age 4 but today, kids can only start working at age 15.