The Changing Role of Women in the 1920s (1918-1929)
During the 1920s (1918-1929), after the World War I, it is the period of Jazz Age. The Jazz Age was an age of new-found music and irrepressible dancing. It is also the age when the role of women had changed from passive to active in society. Women were much more than just looking after their children and doing housework at home. They began to work outside and attend school. They had become more independent both financially and literally. Therefore the employment pattern had changed and women had become increasingly important. In F. Scott Fitzgerald¡¦s Tender is the Night, the changes of women¡¦s role during Jazz Age are vividly portrayed through the life of the starlet, Rosemary and the housewife, Nicole.Responsibility and financial independence No change had a greater impact on women¡¦s roles than the transition from an agricultural economy to a corporate, industrial one. Through the 1920s, 25 percent of Americans lived on farms. Women in farm families worked in the family business. Middle class urban families, relied on a single mail wage earner. Urban working-class mothers, especially African-Americans, engaged in industrial production or domestic work; by 1920, about 9 percent of married women worked outside the hom
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Approximate Word count = 1943
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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