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Flappers
Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.Flappers did what society did not expect from young women. They danced to Jazz Age music, they smoked, they wore makeup, they spoke their own language, and they lived for the moment. Flapper fashion followed the lifestyle. Skirts became shorter to make dancing easier. -
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women working
when millions of men joined the armed forces, women took on an active role in World War II and took on many paid jobs that previously had been held by men – such as bank teller, shoe salesperson or aircraft mechanic. Woman started working in factories – this was called the “Rosie the Riveter” phenomenon. -
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Women in the war
1998 For the first time, women fighter pilots fly combat missions off aircraft
carrier in Operation Desert Fox, Iraq.
Navy warship. The vessel is assigned to the Persian Gulf.
2004 Colonel Linda McTague becomes the first woman commander of a fighter
squadron in U.S. Air Force history.
2008 16,000 women are serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Germany, Japan,
and other related areas.