Women’s Social and Labor History in America

📋 Course Outline

1. Flappers and the 1920s Female Stereotype
2. Patterns of Female Employment During the 1930s
3. The New Deal and Female Reform Tradition
4. Roosevelt’s Female Secretary of Labor (1933-1945)
5. Post-War Baby Boom and Family-Centered Domesticity
6. The White-Collar Ghetto and 1950s Labor Market
7. Women’s Return to Domesticity in the 1950s
8. Working-Class Women Outside the Middle Class
9. The Crisis of the Post-Domesticity Model
10. The Rise of Second-Wave Feminism (1963-1966)
11. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) and EEOC (1965)
12. The Situation and Labor Market Evolution of Black Women in the 1960s

📖 1. Flappers and the 1920s Female Stereotype

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Flappers: Young white urban women in the 1920s who wore short skirts just below the knee, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and openly defied the social norms of acceptable behavior at the time.
• Flapper: An individual young white urban woman of the 1920s embodying the flapper stereotype characterized by modern fashion and social freedoms.

📝 Essential Points

• The flapper symbolized a new image of young women in the 1920s, marked by independence, fashion changes, and social freedoms.
• The 1920s female stereotype challenged Victorian ideals by embracing modernity and urban culture.
• The cultural emergence of the 'New Woman' in the 1920s signified women's increasing social and economic autonomy.

💡 Key Takeaway