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22 lip 2022 · The 1920s, with their looser morals and more relaxed politics, brought new levels of independence for women. Here, two liberated ladies exploit those newfound freedoms by taking their car out for a joyride.
One survey found that 34 percent of women who came into adulthood in the 1910s and 1920s reported losing their virginity before marrying, while only 14 percent of women born before 1900 said they had had premarital sex by age 25.
22 mar 2023 · Finding the right partner and getting married is tricky enough, but for women who married a non-American between 1907 and 1922, it came with some additional disadvantages.
17 wrz 2018 · As Collins writes, only about 10 percent of women in the 1920s kept their jobs after marriage, most of them working-class women whose family needed their paycheck.
5 mar 2019 · The majority of state bars and policies against married and working women were repealed around that time due to a shortage of male labor as men went to war.
2 mar 2015 · That view of “traditional marriage” has been under attack since long before anyone imagined state-sanctioned gay and lesbian unions. In a 2008 paper for the Journal of American History, Rebecca L. Davis looked back on a fight over the nature of marriage back in the 1920s that involved two very different views of heterosexual relationships.
5 lip 2021 · The following are 14 antique photographs from the 1920s in Illinois that will give you a sense of what life was once like in the Prairie State. 1. Riverside Road, Riverside (1920s)