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: There are a few of the job options that opened up to women that weren’t thought of as pink-collar work. Department Store Sales Clerks
Department stores were still very new in the Jazz Age and they needed lots of employees to sell all of their wares. Women were wonderfully suited to this job as it was deemed safe, with good operating hours. The expansion of the beauty market began in earnest during this decade as well, so women were needed to sell to other women. Small boutiques that created and sold dresses, hats, gloves and other clothing and accessories also brought women into the workforce. Working on the Land
America had a far more agrarian basis in the 1920s. What had been the province of men became women’s jobs. With men away at war farms still had to produce. Farming meant cultivating the land, harvesting and finding ways to transport livestock to farms and to the end consumer. Most farms didn’t have electricity so all of the farm work had to be done by hand.