Women in the 1920s were given many new opportunities as World War I ended, such as the right to vote and jobs outside the house. Despite these things, the majority of women didn’t use these opportunities that they were given. Women were always known by society to be property of men, so when they got all these new opportunities, they weren’t using them or offered them in the same way as men. The lives of women changed very little by the end of the 1920s, because the majority did not attend college, voting behaviors had little effect, and household responsibilities remained traditional. To start off, women’s lives in the 1920s changed very little, because the majority did not attend college. During this time period, only the wealthy and middle
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Advocates of women’s suffrage were expecting women’s votes to make changes in their government and society, but in reality, most women didn’t know how to handle this new right. When voting, most women were influenced by their fathers, husbands, and brothers, since they went their whole lives thinking they would never have their voices heard (“The Woman’s Vote”). Since their vote didn’t significantly reflect their perspectives on issues and candidates, the women’s vote didn’t add a prominent point of view in the elections. Women felt pressured to vote like their male peers, since they were raised to believe that they were less important than men. Also, women were still looked at as objects of men rather than people. Opponents of women's suffrage thought that “women are not the equal of men mentally” and giving them the chance to vote “would take them out of their proper sphere of life” (Benner). Some people at the time, including women, believed that women should stay in the house the entire day where they belonged. This viewpoint stopped some women from showing up at the poll booths, because either themselves or their male relatives didn’t believe in women’s suffrage. Even though women worked incredibly long and hard to earn the opportunity to vote, they still had little representation in voting, so their lives hardly
Advocates of women’s suffrage were expecting women’s votes to make changes in their government and society, but in reality, most women didn’t know how to handle this new right. When voting, most women were influenced by their fathers, husbands, and brothers, since they went their whole lives thinking they would never have their voices heard (“The Woman’s Vote”). Since their vote didn’t significantly reflect their perspectives on issues and candidates, the women’s vote didn’t add a prominent point of view in the elections. Women felt pressured to vote like their male peers, since they were raised to believe that they were less important than men. Also, women were still looked at as objects of men rather than people. Opponents of women's suffrage thought that “women are not the equal of men mentally” and giving them the chance to vote “would take them out of their proper sphere of life” (Benner). Some people at the time, including women, believed that women should stay in the house the entire day where they belonged. This viewpoint stopped some women from showing up at the poll booths, because either themselves or their male relatives didn’t believe in women’s suffrage. Even though women worked incredibly long and hard to earn the opportunity to vote, they still had little representation in voting, so their lives hardly