The 1920s brought forth a new era for the middle class women. A woman’s role was most indefinitely redefined. Motherhood was no longer seen as every woman’s maternal instinct and was claimed to be not sufficient enough for child rearing. Now mothers were expected to seek and rely on the advice of professionals such as doctors, nurses, and trained educators in nursery school and kindergartens. Up until this point, this was the only role that women knew. These changes devalued what had been a very important and consuming activity.

In order to compensate the loss of this very important role, many women now turned to another role: being a wife and companion to their husband. Previously women were consumed with the role of being a mother more so than the role of be

Women concluded that in the New Era it was no longer necessary to maintain a rigid, Victorian female “respectability.” This vision of modern womanhood assumed the voluntary control of childbearing. It also consciously encouraged a more active sexual role for women. The liberated homemaker and wife had time available for more romance in her life. Margaret Sanger made it possible for women to have a choice. Not only did she bring forth the American birth-control movement, but this also led to women being able to smoke, drink, dance, wear seductive clothes and makeup, and attend lively parties.

Obviously, the more “relations” a husband and wife would have, the more children they would have. This led to the importance and the growing interest in birth control. The pioneer of the American birth-control movement was Margaret Sanger who began her career as a promoter of the diaphragm and other birth control devices. She believed that large families were one of the major causes of poverty and distress in poor communities. She had famous sayings such as “Poverty and Large Families Go Hand in Hand” and “Poor Women Are Denied What the Rich Possess.”

Before Margaret Sanger, women had no choice. They were limited in every aspect of life. The image that society had made for women, were submissive housewives that did what their husbands told them to do. Even in high school, colleges, and universities had c

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