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.

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 ...

Soon, a flapper was any girl or woman who defied convention—girls who ... and finally, in the 1920s and beyond, to an aspiration. Unlike their mothers and grandmothers, flappers tended to ...

Prepare for wantonly exposed knees and an abundance of short bobs, with the 50 most stylish women of the 1920s. As Baz Luhrmann's highly anticipated The Great Gatsby remake hits cinemas ...

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 ...

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