It’s not 1920, not by a long shot, and the gains of the last century are being rolled back by a resurgent reactionary movement.
“The Roaring Twenties” are an iconic part of American history, full of excess, illegal booze, hot jazz, and high-class fashion. It was an era where the business of America was business, and drunk on easy credit, the stock market reached dizzying new heights. And sure, it all came crashing down one day, spiraling into the single worst economic crisis in recorded history , but that never took the sheen off the decade, which has remained fixed in our imaginations as nothing but glitz and glamour.
And women, fully aware of it, began to more actively challenge social norms. Having cut their teeth on the suffrage movement, America’s women were taking full advantage of increasing legal and social equality, fueling new fashions, new attitudes, and after the 1921 founding of Planned Parenthood , increased control over their bodies and, consequently, their futures. Tomorrow looked bright.
If you want to see the spirit of the Roaring Twenties when it comes to the advancement of women and other marginalized groups, you don’t have to look terribly far. Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House and the president’s most powerful and intractable foe, is doing what few men seem capable of: telling the president “no,” and walking away victorious.
The Twenties didn’t roar simply because times were good, but because there were people out there doing everything they could to open up the world to the contributions of women outside the kitchen and domestic work. That’s labor of which we arebeneficiaries, every single day.
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