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 ...

By the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, women are playing a much greater role in consumption than their grandmothers had played. And by the 1920s again ...

The 1920s saw huge changes for women. It was the first decade in which their abilities outside the home were truly recognized. World War I saw women flocking to work, taking over the jobs of men ...

College for Women students had been part of the effort to win full suffrage for women since at least 1916, when they formed their Equal Suffrage League. The student chapters of the YMCA and the YWCA ...

The last state to ratify was Tennessee. On 18 August 1920, 50 of the 99 members of the state's House of Representatives voted in favour, and women were finally allowed to vote. In the UK ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...