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Content: Women did benefit from a far greater variety of available jobs than in previous decades, but they were still held back from certain professional and managerial positions as well as skilled manufacturing work. To be sure, women did work in manufacturing, but largely in unskilled positions in sweatshop industries such as the garment trade. However, they were also able to achieve professional status as nurses and teachers. Expanding businesses invariably required secretarial support, and a growing number of women fulfilled the growing need by becoming typists and secretaries. The glass ceiling, however, meant that women were seldom able to use these positions as a springboard to something better. Even though the 1920s saw more women in work than ever before, there was still a strong, stubborn prejudice against the idea of women going out to work, and this inevitably held them back. Last Updated by eNotes Editorial on January 28, 2021
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The 1920s are seen as a time when the “New Woman” was coming into existence. Historians say that the women of the 1920s were willing and able to do things that they had not previously been allowed (by social values) to do. One of these things was working outside the home. The majority of married women still did not work for pay, but the numbers of women working increased during this decade.