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Women in the 1920s

  • Women have the right to suffrage

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    Woman in the 1920s

  • Edith Wharton becomes the first woman in the U.S. to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Age of Innocence

  • Margaret Sanger establishes American Birth Control League, encountering social change

  • Rebecca L. Felton becomes the first woman to be in the U.S. Senate

  • Nellie T. Ross encounters change when she becomes the first woman governor of Wyoming

  • Phoebe Omlie was the first woman, licensed-pilot

  • Women are beginning to earn thirty-nine percent of total college degrees

  • Rose Knox (industrialist) became the first woman director of the American Grocery Manufacturers' Association