The opening of glamorous clubs, endless drinking, flappers, and jazzy music all took place in the roaring twenty's. The 1920s were one of the most moving time changes around the world to everyone. People had more freedom and seemed to have more fun. Advanced inventions, such as electricity, helped extend time for more work and fun. Even the radio changed the lives of everyone by bringing people together through communication, jokes, and music. While everything else was changing in the 1920s, the women were also changing by their style of fashion, their leisure of time, their amount of education, and the fight for equality.During the Jazz Age, the flapper dress was born, which showed ...view middle of the document...
The ones that were in clerical work had to be respectable, wear white collars, and primarily were available to whites. They provided the opportunity for a new ideology that recognized work outside of the home, but separated that work from the idea of a career so valued by the Nineteenth and early twentieth century of new women seeking economic independence. Women still had to subject themselves to more restrictions than men to inherent double standards. Even though women spent time working for money, they also spent time away from home by having fun. A lot of the women would go out alone with men and would drink, be merry, and be free (Wukovits 143). Most of that time, they would go clubbing, dancing, and singing. The 1920s was the time that gave the women what they always wanted to be able to live a good life for themselves.The nature of women's work began to change by their attendance in college and becoming important people such as teachers, doctors, and lawyers. The image of a modern working girl joined the youthful independence and consumer orientation to become an ideal college girl that needed "personality" to get ahead. Eventually, educators prepared women for longer roles in the public sphere and in an environment. By the 1920s the pace of expansion in professional openings for women over-rated job creation in the clerical sector (Wukovits 149). The number of female physicians, surgeons, and dentists decreased because thousands of women moved into the professions. Middle-class women were suggested to be suitable to work in health and education and were also popular with girl scouts, including the upper class girls. All of these changes during the 1920s mirrored the feminization of the labor force and the demand for better educated female workers.One woman that made a huge difference in being capable of education in the 1920's was Helen Keller. She was banished permanently from the world because she was blind, deaf, and mute. As a child she would be demanding because she did not know anything about discipline, never was able to get along with her family because she did not feel welcomed or loved, and wanted to learn but felt like she was not able to. Her teacher would not give up on her and was determined to teach Helen discipline, sign language, and repressing symbols into her hands (Herrmann 55). Even though her teacher tried her best to teach Helen, she still never understood and would also go into rage. Finally the teacher made a last attempt and poured water over Helen's hands and spelled water (Herrmann xiii). Helen understood and wanted to learn more about everything that she touched. Later she graduated from Radcliffe cum laude, with honors. She helped set up the American Foundation for the Blind and then joined the suffragettes. She was no longer deaf to the words of the world, nor blind to the things in it and overcame her fears and challenges by taking on the worlds. Helen Keller showed that women were able to do anything e...
