Women's Inequality In The 1920s

Changes, occurring in the 1920’s and continuing into the 20th Century have been significant in the lives of women. However, today, women are still treated unequally with men still being considered the dominant gender. Women were considered as being naturally weaker than men. Since early times, women have been the strength in the home and family. Connecting those periods from the early, nineteenth century into the 20th Century, life for women have changed in so many ways. According to, Wheeler, William and Becker, Susan “in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was finally ratified. Seventy-five years in the making, ratification came too late for women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady

Women were barred from certain jobs, and routinely (and legally) paid less for their labor” (171). This was life for women in the 1920’s compared to life for women today. What an excellent achievement to be proud of, women now doing unbelievable things, back then no one could or would have ever imagined the dreams women have accomplished today. At hand, there is still inequality between men and women. According to Wheeler, William, and Becker, Susan “In 1921, the NWP began to campaign for an equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, which would abolish all forms of gender inequality in the United States. The proposed amendment declared that “men and women shall have equal rights throughout the united States and every place subject to its jurisdiction” (171). Time and time again people don’t become mindful of the difference because everyone seems so equal, but gender inequality still

I’ve ascertained that we as women have come a long way. However, we still have a long way to go and I am grateful to know that the many challenges women faced before me have led me into becoming the strong woman I am today. I’ve learned a lot about women in the 1920’s and being a woman here into the 20th Century, makes me happy to know the advantages and opportunities I now have. Giving the right, to vote, the right to a higher Education, having the opportunity to see my dreams come true, came from the help of women from my past. I am now able to accomplish, almost any goal within reason, just the same as many goals as any man could or would ever try to accomplish.

Life in the early 1920’s was unfair, but through good will and hard work. For many women now, it has really paid off. We have come a long way, yet we still have a long way to go. And now for women here in the 20th Century, looking back at the women in the 1920’s it is not who we were, that have changed; it’s who we have become. The change is how we took the advantages and challenges placed against us that have allowed us to be the women we are