The Prohibition era in the United States, spanning from 1920 to 1933, is often characterized by speakeasies, gangsters, and ...

Many women didn’t know how pregnancy occurred. Some had been unprepared even for menstruation. One recalled that when she ...

That year, 18-year-old Ruth Malcomson of Pennsylvania took home the crown. In 1920, women made up about 20% of the labor force in the United States, many of whom worked in factories manufacturing ...

Females were employed in jobs that were traditionally associated with women, for example servants, seamstresses, secretaries and nurses. By the end of the 1920s, there were significant changes to ...

The 1920s brought huge changes for women. During World War I, they proved to society that they could handle the jobs left by men who'd gone to war; the right to vote helped solidify some women's ...