The Role Of Women In The 1920's

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Over centuries, women have been known to just be gentle, fragile and feminine. They were always given the weakest job, the less say, less rights, etc. The list goes on and on. Women began to experience changes over the years. In the 1920’s, these were the years where women began to get more rights. They were experiencing changes in politics, at home, the workplace, and in education. Women finally got the right to vote in the 1920’s.Women were finally getting that freedom they deserved, but in conclusion, women will always be judged. They will always get that certain ‘look’ when they are not doing something so feminine. There will still be people who will still discriminate against others based on their gender, just like there are people who are still racist. Women are known to just stay at home and be a wife or a mom or perhaps, both. They do the easy work at home and let their husbands or hire someone to do the masculine work. Women can do much more than what they expect they are just use to what everyone else says and what they are not capable of. It is all in their heads. For example, this woman is downgrading on herself just because she’s use to planting flowers and doing the cleaning around the house. It is never good to think negative, “It …show more content…

But what they are known for is to be feminine. “For example, the stereotypic belief that women are warm and caring is matched by a societal prescription that they should be warm and caring” (Prentice & Carranza 269). Nowadays, we have men that are warm and caring as well. You can walk down the streets of New York, Los Angeles, Colorado, etc. and find guys expressing their feminine side. You’ll see them with skinny jeans, girl tops, dyed hair, purses, and who knows maybe with their boyfriend by their side as well. This isn’t just for men; there are also women out there who are comfortable expressing their masculine

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