‘Woman’s place is in the Home but Home is not contained within the four walls of an individual home. Home is the community.’1 These words, written by Rheta Childe Dorr in 1910, typified the attitude of women during the decades immediately following the turn of the century. The period between 1900 and 1940 was a time of much political, social, and economic change for women in the United States. As Dorr illustrated, many of the fundamental beliefs …showed first 75 words of 1363 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1363 total…so than ever before, women were going out and getting jobs and supporting themselves or helping to support their families. This revolutionized women’s roles within the home and family. The women who initiated these changes during the first few decades of the 1900s are largely responsible for the huge accomplishments of womankind during the entire twentieth century. 1. Steven J. Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era, (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998), 202.