Title: Women in the 1920s
Headings: Women in the 1920s
Women in the 1920s
Women in the 1920s

Content: Opportunities ofWomen in the 1920s KATE SIMON KS
4. The Working Woman in the 1920s  In 1920 women composed 23.6% of the labor force  During WWI  When men were at war the women took the place of men at their jobs. That were dangerous and a men’s job. These jobs included:  Worked as conductors of trams or buses  Worked on farms  In engineering  In highly dangerous munitions Industries  There was a high demand of women to do heavy lifting such as unloading coal, stocking furnaces and building ships.  After WWI, more jobs came open for women. These jobs included:  Teacher, secretaries, typists, nurses, seamstresses  Even when men came back from war, women continued to stay in the workforce Google Images – Working Women in the 1920s (Role Of Women In The 1920s – source 5) (Women and Gender, Sumner – source3) KS
5. The Working Woman in the 1920s  The American Federation of Labor did not support the working woman. It did not want women competing for mens jobs.