How were women empowered after the War?

Question

How were women empowered after the War?

Answer 1

Which war and which country?  It is a good question, but unanswerable unless more info is provided.

Answer 2

Women got the vote in the USA in 1920.  In the UK, women over thirty got the vote in 1918, and women over 21 in 1928.

Generally, there was a decline of interest among women in careeers, education, and social reform in the 1920s.  Women were more interested in having fun.  They bobbed their hair, shortened their skirts, took to wearing makeup, drinking and smoking.  They drove automobiles and flew aeroplanes.  They went out with boys without chaperones, and experimented with 'heavy petting'.  They took to sunbathing, and dieting, thinness was essential, as were flat chests.

The 'new women' of the pre-WW1 era, with their interest in education and social reform, seemed dull and out of date to the young women of the 20s.  The idea of staying single to devote themselves to a career had little appeal for women of the 20s, who saw marriage as more appealing.  Zelda Fitzgerald summed up the 20s attitude pretty well when she said:

"I think a woman gets more happiness out of being g*y, light-hearted, unconventional, mistress of her own fate than out of a career that calls for hard work, intellectual pessimism, and loneliness." She expressed the hope that her own infant daughter would not become a "genius".

  "I want her to be a flapper, because flappers are brave and g*y and beautiful" Zelda said.

Frank Gilbreth, whose children wrote about him affectionately in 'Cheaper by the Dozen', too a more disapproving view of the fun-loving youth of the 20s,

"That's what's the matter with this generation. Nobody thinks about being smart or clever or sweet or even attractive.  No sir, they want to be skinny and flat-chested and popular!"

Answer 3

Pi sh posh we women have been making our mark for centuries long before any war. We have managed to hold our own and no slouch abouts are we, nor were we ever.

Nothing is misunderstood.. We have invented, we have fought and we have established ourselves grandly; for instance where shall we be had not Clara Barton started the American Red Cross?  We are not a bunch of lie about weak ninny pinnies and I wish people would stop looking at us as such. I'm an anti-feminist and proud of it.

Answer 4

women were not the only ones empowered by the first world war.

     Women's suffragette often over shadow's the fact that many of the european allied soldiers that fought and died did not have the right to vote until after the war.

      (The same is similar for the USA, until the civil war there was no universal suffrage for male voters for the most part, about a 80 odd year difference between universal voting rights for men compared for universal voting rights for women a fact radicals love to ignore)

The simple fact is for thousands of years the elite in society where the only ones with substantial rights till the end of the first world war.