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In Search of the American Dream: The USA, c1917–96

The changing position of women, 1917–80

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Recall questions on the Nineteenth Amendment and the flapper, work in the Depression and the war, The Feminine Mystique, Title IX, and why the ERA failed.

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How did the Second World War change women's roles?

Key term

What movement sought women's equality from the 1960s?

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Who was the flapper, and how representative was she?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    What decade is called the 'Roaring Twenties'?

    Model answer

    The 1920s.

  2. 2

    What movement sought women's equality from the 1960s?

    Model answer

    The women's liberation movement.

  3. 3

    How did the Second World War change women's roles?

    Model answer

    Millions entered war work, symbolised by 'Rosie the Riveter'.

  4. 4

    What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?

    Model answer

    Ratified in 1920, it gave women the vote nationally, though it did not remove the barriers that kept black women in the South from voting.

  5. 5

    Who was the flapper, and how representative was she?

    Model answer

    The image of the young woman with short hair and shorter skirts who smoked, drank and drove; real enough in cities but confined to a young, urban, mostly white minority.

  6. 6

    How did the Depression affect women's employment?

    Model answer

    Married women were pushed out of jobs on the argument that they took work from men, though the sectors where women predominated contracted less than heavy industry.

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