Title: The Lives of Women in the Early 1900s | Synonym
Headings: The Lives of Women in the Early 1900s
The Lives of Women in the Early 1900s
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1 Women in the Workforce
2 Women's Suffrage
3 World War I
4 Resistance to Reform

Content: More states began to grant women full voting rights later in the 1900s, including Kansas, Oregon, California, Montana and Nevada. 3 World War I
Greater numbers of women started working during World War I. They began to work in nontraditional jobs as mechanics, police officers and truck drivers as necessary replacements for men who had left to fight in the war. The end of the war and the return of the men displaced women from these jobs but only after they had gotten a taste of new opportunities. 4 Resistance to Reform
Many women breaking out of their traditional roles in the early 20th century faced enormous resistance from all levels of society, not the least of which came from other women who insisted they should remain in their traditional roles. Women who demonstrated and fought for labor reform, voting rights and birth control often faced arrest and discrimination. In 1916, Margaret Sanger was arrested after opening the first birth control clinic in the country.