In the 1920s, some women's lives changed radically due to the introduction of new rights and jobs. The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, and some women voted in the November 1920 election.

In 1901, after earning her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Davis became superintendent of the New York State Reformatory ...

Working women have come a long way in the last 100 years. In the 1920s, women entered the workforce in astonishing numbers as a result of the industrial revolution. Then, as men were sent off to ...

Hurston became a leading figure during the “Harlem Renaissance” of the 1920s and 1930s, was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology at Columbia University, and wrote columns for ...

along with the dawn of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age—eras of great social change. Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect on January 17. The 19th ...

American women still have fewer orgasms than men, according to new research that suggests that decades after the sexual revolution, the "orgasm gap" is still very much in effect. One of the study ...

The Roaring Twenties — now 100 years ago — looked vastly different than our world today. Coming after a war-torn decade where military efforts redefined women's role in society, the 1920s saw ...