When analyzing the role of women not by class or ethnicity but as a sex, it is essential to analyze their sexuality. Sociologists have studied feminine roles from many such angles as the Freudian fixation on the mother and father and the behavioralist perspective that one is a product of one’s environment. Men’s and women’s roles in sex should be taught within the home and family, not out in the changing world, to ensure the survival of morality. With that in mind, it was widely believed in the 1920's, that “civilized” women of the day were educated in the appropriate place that sexuality had in society; therefore, women of the lower classes were not said to have abandoned their morals but rather were lacking in them. However, as other researchers observed, this post-war sexual revolution, during which women seized their

Another changing aspect of the world after World War I was the working woman, whether she worked in the home or out. Unlike sexuality, which changed women as a whole, women were affected by working life in varying ways and degrees based on their ethnicity, social class, and even level of education. In traditional homes, women’s work was in that home. It was her responsibility to care for the home and everything in it. Some viewed this responsibility as equal to men’s work outside; a married couple was a sort of team, and if either failed in his or her responsibility, the other would surely suffer. Such was the case in many immigrant and lower class families. Wives often needed to work outside the home as well as within it to support a multitude of children, sometimes a sick or out of work husband and even to supplement the husband’s ever declining income. Traditionally, this would appear to cause many rifts in what would otherwise be a stable home-life, but there were some advantages afforded to the children of working mothers. Children who had no mother at home to care for them grew up learning to care independently for themselves and for their younger siblings. In addition, many working mothers strived to improve the quality of their children’s lives by affording them every advantage possible including edu

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