Title: Jobs for Women in the 1920s | Bizfluent
Headings: Jobs for Women in the 1920s
Jobs for Women in the 1920s
Department Store Sales Clerks
Working on the Land
Secretarial and Office Work
Telephone Switchboard Operators
1920's Jobs in Medicine

Content: Men had been employed as operators until a Boston entrepreneur realized that women’s voices were more soothing on the phone. Emma Nutt was the first woman to fill this role, which broke way for women in the 1920s workforce to fill this busy role in droves. As the switchboard became more sophisticated and more people had telephones, more women were hired. 1920's Jobs in Medicine
World War 1 sadly meant more injuries. This meant new jobs for women in the 1920s in the field of medicine. While female doctors were rare, female nurses were incredibly commonplace. The Red Cross quickly hired and trained thousands of young women to be nurses, often at the battlefronts. Thankfully, there are more opportunities today than there were for women’s jobs in the 1920s. Yet the impact our foremothers had in the workforce is still felt. Without women paving the way, many career fields wouldn’t have expanded as they did and made it clear that women can work just as hard and as well as any man.