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

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Secretarial and Office Work
When wondering what new careers were available to women in the 1920s, people often overlook secretarial work. Although it became a cliche for women to be secretaries after this time period, before the 1920s it was principally a job filled by men. As men were traditionally more educated to read and write fluently and were expected to be alone with other men a large part of the day it wasn’t thought to be women’s work. Telephone Switchboard Operators
Also known as switchboard operators, this had been thought of as women’s work since 1878. 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.