Women in the 19teens

A Talk by Betsy J. Green in honor of Women’s History Month

Wednesday, March 30
5:30 PM
Santa Barbara Historical Museum Courtyard

Great changes were on the horizon for women as the second decade of the 1900s opened. The corsets and bustles of decades past gave way to the new freedoms of modern dress. The spread of electricity and of new appliances helped relieve the drudgery of housework while at the same time opportunities in the workplace multiplied. And, towards the end of the decade, women got the vote and even went to war.

Betsy J. Green is the author of the “Way Back When” series on edhat, which celebrate the yearly social history of Santa Barbara. She authors a Santa Barbara Independent column, “The Great House Detective.”