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In the early 20th century, a married woman’s leisure was almost non-existing. They were very confined to their tenement because of household chores, cooking, cleaning, and child care; sometimes they had boarders or did laundry in their homes also. They spent a lot of time decorating their homes because that’s where they spent most of their time. Many of them might get some time to socialize with other women during their chores, mostly talking about gossip, hardly any real fun. Married women had no resources for leisure. Their husbands spent what they wanted before turning the rest over to the household. The women received no spending money. Of the rare times that the whole family decided to do something together it usually didn’t cost little to nothing. On those rare times it usually wound up just being more work for the mother.
Approximate Word count = 538
Approximate Pages = 2.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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