Flappers

 

 1.Why did the role of (some) wome change in the twentis?

The battle for suffrage was finally over. After a 72-year struggle, women had won the precious right to vote. The generations of suffragists that had fought for so long proudly entered the political world. Carrie Chapman Catt carried the struggle into voting awareness with the founding of the League of Women Voters. Alice Paul vowed to fight until an Equal Rights Amendment was added to the Constitution. Margaret Sanger declared that female independence could be accomplished only with proper birth control methods. To their dismay, the daughters of this generation seemed uninterested in these grand causes. As the 1920s roared along, many young women of the age wanted to have fun.

      2.

  Advertisement for the Federal School of Commercial Designing (1917)

               AMBITIOUS GIRL! Better sign up now, because the boys are all going "Over There," and soon you'll have to support yourself. But don't worry: even a girl can earn as much as a man, by becoming a graphic designer.

 

A. What is it about?

  It's an advertisment for the Federal School of Commercial Designing on 1917. It talks about how girls could earn as much as a man, by becoming a graphic designer, a moder profesion, in which the only thing you need is to like drawing and want to work.

B. Do you agree with the sentence "even a girl can earn as much as a man"? Why?

  I agree with it because girls were before at home, looking after their kids and this was an oportutity to women to do what men do but, "even", I think this word shouldn't be there because it seem girls are less than the men, showing that if a girl can do what a man do, every one can do it, like if it were so easy, so easy as even a girl can do it.

C. Do you think women should support themselves? Why?

Yes, I think so, because we don't need to depend on men, we are able to live on our own and to do exactly the same activities and to earn the same money as a man.