The Flapper and Women’s Changing Roles.
Flappers are young women with short skirts and rouged cheeks who had their hair cropped close in a style like a bob. They came across as care-free. They drank, smoked, made up new dances, used slang, and drove fast. (Sauro) New women of 1920s were more liberated, dresses with shorter hemlines, put on more makeup, danced, and assumed same political and social rights as any man. Women suffrage ended with passage of the 19th Amendment. Women worked in reform movements, ran for office, fought for laws to protect women and children in the workplace. “In 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson of Texas become the first women elected as their state’s governor” (Lapsansky-Werner 236). The National Woman's party main goal was the passage of an Equal Rights Amendment. Women tended to live longer, marry later, and have fewer children. With these changes they had more free time to pursue other interests like, working, joining clubs, and charitable work. They entered workforce and worked in domestic service, manufacturing, sales, and management positions. (234-235)