1920s and 1930s - Women's History
Women's history during the 1920s and 1930s, between the two World Wars. The Twenties began with the ratification of woman suffrage in the United States and proceeded through the Jazz Age; the Thirties saw more change in women's roles.
An evangelical missionary preacher, with America and its sinners as her mission field -- when she disappeared in 1926, was she really hiding away in a "love nest" with a man on her radio station's staff, or was she kidnapped? Was she a hypocrite or was she a victim of the media and of those who couldn't stand a woman with such power in a position normally closed to women?
Jen Rosenberg, About Guide to the 20th Century, on the flapper, the 1920s new woman who voted, drank, wore her hair short and partied.
A 1932 article by Eleanor Roosevelt, originally published in
The Home Magazine. "We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man."
Fourteen years after women won the vote, Eleanor Roosevelt reviews the present political situation of women and outlines her dreams for the future. From
It's Up to the Women published in 1933.
According to this 1928 article by Eleanor Roosevelt, women need more voice in public life to achieve real political equality with men.
A 1940 article by Eleanor Roosevelt, on the accomplishments and future of women in public life.
