How did society change after womens suffrage? did anything continue the same?

Question

i need to know how society, lifestyles or anything changed after womens suffrage and if some things stayed the same, what were they? need examples of change and continuity after womens suffrage. thanks

Answer 1

Ever since American women won the vote in 1920, one question has dominated discussions of the aftermath: what difference did it make? In trying to answer this question, most commentators (including contemporary observers and journalists, and later, historians and political scientists) have looked at a narrow range of variables, such as how many women voted, how many won political office, how women voted in relation to men, and whether their having the vote led to any concrete political results. After reviewing the evidence, commentators tended to conclude that, in the grand scheme of things, women's suffrage was a relatively minor event. After all, only a few women voted and most of these chose the candidates their husbands favored. Only a tiny number of women won elected or appointive office and, although some legislative victories for a "women's political agenda" can be identified, after 1920 American politics were not transformed in any significant ways.

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi...

Debunking conventional wisdom that women had little impact on politics after gaining the vote, Kristi Andersen gives a compelling account of both the accomplishments and disappointments experienced by women in the decade after suffrage. This revisionist history traces how, despite male resistance to women's progress, the entrance of women and of their concerns into the public sphere transformed both the political system and women themselves.

Andersen shows how women's participation was based on a conception of women's citizenship as indirect and disinterested......

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hf...

Answer 2

it seems that your also working on your paper !!!!.... what comes to mind is that after women's suffrage came it changed what was norms in people mind, painting the way to a society of acceptance for woman, still today woman are seen as inferior to men but the suffrage validated the idea that woman too were capable to make decision and think, it was the starting point to allow us to be free today.... we are still not there but it was the beginning  of our chapter

Answer 3

The women's vote did not make a great deal of difference to political life.  Most women appeared to vot the way their husbands, brothers, and fathers did - not necessarily because they felt obliged to follow the men's lead, but because they shared the same loyalties to class, ethnic group, and region.  The women's movement disappeared.  The National American Woman Suffrage Association turned itself into the League of Women Voters, and its membership plunged to one-tenth of what it had been.

Society did change in various ways during the 1920s, but i don't know how much it had to do with suffrage.  WW1 probably had something to do with it, young women got used to more freedom of movement as a result of the war for instance.

The 1920s was an era when young women began to shorten their skirts and cut their hair, wear makeup, smoke and drink and go out dancing with men without chaperones.  They were socially more liberated than the pre-WW1 generation.

However, there was also during this period a decline in interest in higher education and careers among young women.  Far fewer women were entering the professions.  A woman doctor remarked sadly that female doctors had become "as fashionable as a horse and buggy".  Before WW1, quite a lot of women had made the decision to stay single and pursue a career, but to the young women of the 1920s this seemed an unappealing prospect.   They did not regard intellectual pursuits highly either.  A woman college professor observed that the 1920s were the bleakest years of her career.

In the 1920s, as before, most single women worked, but most expected to give up work when they married. In some jobs, like teaching for instance, women were required to resign if they got married.  Homes were becoming more comfortable, with most houses now having indoor plumbing.  The 20s was the decade when most american families acquired an automobile.