What where the roles of women in 1930's?
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same as it should be now!!\n\nCleaning\nCooking\nChildbirth and upbringing\nCopulating when required!\n\nAll C's too, must be a sign!
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See Rousseau and women in\nhttp://cal.csusb.edu/Faculty/Philosophy/moody/314f04%20rousseau_and_women.htm
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wow spakarun really wants you to think it was that bad. come on man, chin up, it wasn't like we were all living in a Jewish ghetto.\nYes, times were hard, especially for inner city people and farmers out west. It wasn't called the Great Depression for nothing. But the people weren't turning on each other like dogs. Families were working together, supporting each other. In some parts of America, like the Ohio valley, farming was still successful. The people also turned to silent movies and radio to take their mind off their troubles, which helped Hollywood become the booming place it is today.\nThe point of the question was women in the 1930's. Women had the right to vote. Many of them had turned from the ankle-length skirts of their grandmothers, and were wearing more modern dresses, with short sleeves and hemlines to their knees.\nMost of them still prefered to stay home and be housewives, unless they were single or widowed. In those days, if a married woman was working, it was a shame on her husband. \n.
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Great question, I belive it was in 1930.
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I'm betting that Home Economics was there.  Cooking and Sewing.   In the 1970s, our school had a "Bachelor Living" course for the guys.  Frankly, those boys could sew and we were jealous of their talent when the dress shirts they had made were put on display!\n\nThey also had typing and shorthand courses, like my grandmother took.  They tell me she could type 90 wpm on one of those old, old, old style typewriters!  She worked for a newspaper typing ariticles for the reporters until she married my grandfather.  \n\nI hope this helps.\n\nSue\n\nBut in the 1920s, there were just some things girls didn't learn, and some things they did.
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I think in our times the strengths and talents of women are more in demand. I think women are better at this moment in history.
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I hope you get an answer to this question, because it seems such things are more left to individual interpretation nowadays. Many women hate to hear the phrase "a woman's role". It's sort of odd that everyone can think of what a man's role is, but a woman's is so unclear. Another question might be, Did the roles change, who changed them and should they have ben changed for today's women in the first place?
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8: 1930, 1934, 1950, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
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1940s or 50s. I LOVE the fashion from that era and could have so much fun playing dress-up. It would also be interesting to see how life was when my grandmother was "in her prime."
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You probally have enough answers already, but the answer is 1950's
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Actually, I just did a research paper on the "Roaring Twenties". The Twenties were known as the "Roaring Twenties" because of the unbelievable economic prosperity, government willing to sit back and let society run itself more than any other previous United States government, and because of a social class that pushed boundaries farther than ever. Unemployment rates went down and war veterans returned home, this led to a hgue economic boost. Also, the 1920's brought many things that led to what some would call the most colorful decade in Americna history. These things include but are not limited to: the commercial radio, the Jazz Age, and the intoduction of non-silent films known as "talkies". Also, women became more independant and a new type of woman emerged. Known as "flappers", these women wore short skirts, drank and smoked, and danced just like the men. All of these attributes together added up for one hell of a decade, simply known today as the "Roaring Twenties"
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The 20th Century for women was about liberation and gaining equality.  During the 20th Century women got the vote and broke into male dominated careers.  Now we are succeeding in ou careers and balancing everything in our lives.  Thankfully many men out there are willing to their share around the house (my fiance does more than his fair share and to a better standard than me when it comes to housework and cooking!) in order to support their partners.\n\nIn short without all the struggles of women in the 20th Century I wouldn't be a full time Engineer who also  volunteers with Air Cadets in her spare time with the ability to vote and get involved in politics.  I would hate to go back to a time where I couldn't do these things.
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I think one of the biggest factors is that women stepped up and filled all the jobs that the men left to go fight.  This is the first time in modern history that women were not just allowed but encouraged to do "man's" work.
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C. personal freedom. People, especially women felt very liberated after the end of the Edwardian era. Short skirts, short hair, they could smoke in public, drink, and vote. All these things were unheard of before the 1920's.
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the 19th amendmant was womens sufferage(right to vote)... im pretty sure it was after the war.
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Hattie Caraway  was the first woman who entered the Senate.\n(in November 1931)
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Mystic Pizza, naturally. She was still young and normal-- not all full of herself as she is now. \n\nAll of you who said Pretty Woman sit down. She plays a WHORE in that movie for God's sake! A glamourized whore doing what all women do: look for the golden ring to latch onto! At least when Audrey Hepburn played a prostitute (in Breakfast at Tiffany's) she did it with class and style very much becoming of a lady of her position. ;)