Women in the workforce began to define the new morality. Many working-class women took jobs becuse they or their families need the wadges but for some young, single women, work was a way to get away from there parents and establish financial independence. Earning money also allowed women to participate in the consomer office. In the workforce, women composed more then 23.6% of the work force and women older then 15, 8.3 millon of the work force worked out side of there homes. By the time that world war 1 came around, 25.6 percent of employed women worked in white-collar office-staff jobs, 23.8 percent in manufacturing, 18.2 percent in domestic service, and 12.9 percent in agriculture.
