In the 1920s, City Women Found Housework Was

question 85

Multiple Choice

In the 1920s, city women found housework was

• A) easier for middle-class housewives because they were able to hire immigrant women and farm girls for household help.
• B) reduced in terms of hours and sheer physical effort thanks to electrification, store-bought clothing, and purchased food.
• C) "socialized" through cooperative apartments, commercial laundries, and other collective forms of housework.
• D) increased because industrialization and crowded urban conditions made homes dirtier.
• E) simpler because air conditioning and electric heat made homes cleaner.