U.S. AFTER 1865DYNAMICS OF GENDER POLITICS IN THE 1910S AND 1920S
In the period during World War 1, the place of the women was in chemical plants, steel foundries, and munitions factories as a way of serving their country. After the creation of the Army Corps of Nurses, many women went abroad as nurses, and this gave them strong moral arguments for their voting rights. Women tactics and immoral way of treatment forced the Congress to act on the issue, and it was on August 26, 1920, that President Wilson declares his favor on women suffrage. From this day on, the style of women changed and between 1910 and 1920, many women were present in the labor force. Moreover, a notable difference was also evident in the kind of works the women engaged in, and this led to the decrease in the number of female household servants, dressmakers, farmhands, and cooks. Nonetheless, an increase in women bankers, doctors, social workers, police and probation officer and hairdressers was noted (Tindall & Shi, 2010).
The 1920s also marked a new period for females because they found new freedom in the modernizing of American urban culture. Two of women's greatest movement, temperance, and suffrage were brought...
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