Title: How Flappers of the Roaring Twenties Redefined Womanhood - HISTORY
Headings: How Flappers of the Roaring Twenties Redefined Womanhood
How Flappers of the Roaring Twenties Redefined Womanhood
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Content: It was progress though, with a handful of women would be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (none to the Senate), and many more served at the state and local levels. Not only were women hitting a glass ceiling with job fields, workplace discrimination and wage inequality also ran rampant throughout the ‘20s. As Gail Collins writes in her book America’s Women, the average weekly wage for men in 1927 was $29.35, compared to only $17.34 for women. While their wages were not high, women joined the new mass consumer culture. Their wages might not have matched that of their male counterparts, but working women used their purchasing power to join the nation’s new mass consumer culture. “ The nature of domestic life changes for urban women, certainly, in the '20s,” Dumenil says. By 1927, nearly two-thirds of American homes would have electricity, and new consumer goods like the washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner were revolutionizing housework and home life. Women were the major target audience for many of the new products, including household appliances, clothing and cosmetics. The rise of the automobile contributed to the sense of freedom and possibility that suffused the Roaring Twenties. “ The car is central to Americans' lives in the 1920s, across the board,” Dumenil explains. “