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how were women viewed by others in the years 1900-1995 in new york ?
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That's a huge timeline.
In America, they were generally viewed as mothers, teachers, and nurses.
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Once Suffrage passed, then the views changed to include politician, aviatrix, and flapper.
Once the Great Depression set in, they were viewed as mothers and providers, since many husbands seemed to have disappeared via suicide or running away from familial responsitilities. They worked as laundry ladies to earn some money to feed their children.
WW2 is when they were needed to work in the factories to replace the men who went to war. So they were viewed as machinists "Rosy the Riveter", military auxilliary pilots and medical troops, and other various jobs previously not opened to them but reserved for men.
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After WW2, they started to enter the workforce slowly to lead fuller lives, improve their family's income, and just to feel alive by working and being productive in society.
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Well, that's a rather large time period.
In the early 1900s, the New Woman was very much in vogue. A lot of women were involved in political and social reform, and women's colleges were very popular with those who could afford them.
Most single women worked for a living, but if they were liable to be paid less than men for the same work, women teachers earned a lot less than male teachers, for example.
The idea of staying single to pursue a career was appealing to a lot of women. Nearly half of all female college graduates at the turn of the last century did not marry. There were more women doctors in the 1910s than in any other decade up until the 1980s.
The white middle class worried about "race suicide". The best-educated native born women were failing to reproduce while immigrant families had tons of healthy babies. President Theodore Roosevelt was a particular fretter. "If American women of the old stock lead lives of celibate selfishness...or if the married are afflicted by that fear of living which...forbids them to have more than one or two children, disaster awaits the nation" he proclaimed. G. Stanley Hall, that professional worrier, warned that "if women do not improve" men would have to look for immigrant wives or perhaps undertake "a new rape of the sabines". Ladies Home Journal, which never seemed to regard consistency as a particular editorial virtue, alternated its essays by happy spinsters with short stories about women who grabbed for matrimonial happiness in the nick of time.
Of course, the vast majority of women did not go to college, but then neither did the vast majority of men. Most people of both sexes would leave school at an early age to go to work. Although the ideal was for the woman to give up work on marriage, the fact is that many women did not have that choice, they had to work whether they liked it or not.
In the 1920s, the 'New Woman' of the 1910s was replaced by the Flapper as the image of the modern girl. Young women cut their hair and shortened their skirts, they took to drinking and smoking and wearing make-up, and sunbathing. The idea of staying single to pursue a career was a lot less appealing than it had been to the pre-WW1 generation.
"That's what's the matter with this generation. Nobody thinks about being smart or clever or sweet or even attractive. No sir, they want to be skinny and flat-chested and popular" bellowed Frank Gilbreth, the father of the authors of Cheaper by the Dozen, when his oldest daughter Anne declared "I'm never going to wear long underwear again". Like parents all over the country, the Gilbreths eventually gave in and allowed their daughers to buy silk stockings and flimsy underwear and bob their hair, although according to the authors, when Anne arrived at the dinner table with her new haircut, her mother dropped the peas and burst into tears.
The underlying impuse was freedom- from the mores of the past that required women to keep themselves in check, physically and emotionally. The woman of the 20s was supposed to be a "pal" to her male friends. and later her husband. She was not going to keep the hearth warm while her mate was out carousing. She was out there with him. She needed to be physically free to dance the wild, flapping dances of the moment, play golf, drive a car, and leap up and down at football games. Rebellion was not jus tin the wind, it was in the junior section of local department stores. It was intended, in part, to drive the older generation crazy, and it succeeded. The president of the university of Florida predicted "The low-cut gowns, the rolled hose and short skirts are born of the devil and his angels and are carrying the present and future generations to destruction."
Women were seen by the advertising industry as the nation's chief consummers. "Today's woman gets what she wants" enthused an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune. "The vote. Slim sheaths of silk to replace voluminous petticoats. Glassware in sapphire blue or glowing amber. The right to a career. Soap to match her bathroom's colour scheme."
During the Depression, pressure was put on married women who worked to resign from their jobs, but many were determined to work in order to maintain their standard of living, or just in order to survive. "I think the single girl is entitled to make a living more so than the married women who has a husband to support her and mostly they work so they can buy a lot of luxuries" a twenty-three year old woman wrote to the US Department of Labour. Even Frances Perkins, when she was working for Governor Roosevelt in New York in 1930, joine din the outcry, denouncing any women who worked merely for 'Pin money' as "a meance to society, a selfish and short-sighted creature who ought to be ashamed of herself."
Legislators in twenty-six states introduced laws completely banning the hiring of married women, although only Louisianna passed a law, and it was quickly
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Usually with the eyes, but occasionally with binoculars.
Why? How else would you view them?
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How were women viewed between the years of 1900-1995?