Family and home life for women in the 1920’s changed with the inventions of electrical appliances. The circumstances of household work were very different than the previous decade. Household appliances reduced time needed for daily chores and basically made life easier. Electric washing machines, irons, stoves, and vacuum cleaners eliminated the need for servants. Until then even middle class women relied on hired help to assist with housework and childcare. Women in this decade were still expected to cook and clean like the women before them. Although the work was done more quickly, the dependenc

e on appliances often placed a larger burden on women. She spent more time and invested more of herself in washing, ironing, and cleaning house. In this decade women spent over sixty hours per week doing housework alone. Even though the women spent so much time doing house hold work a new breed of woman was soon going to sweep, the working woman.

Work and education for women in the 1920’s was also different. Middle class women worked better at jobs than most women had before. Women were entering white collar and clerical fields passing over traditional jobs as domestic servants. Eleven percent of women ages eighteen to twenty-one were in college, and forty percent of the women who held jobs held white collar jobs. Women worked as nurses, teachers, shop clerks, or in business offices as secretaries and typists. These jobs had higher status and were much better paying than factory or mill work.

The last change for women in the 1920’s was their political status. Leaders for the women’s movement remained

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