Change was afoot in other areas of the social landscape too. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment gave every US woman the right to vote, while in the UK, the same right was afforded to women over the age of 21 in 1928.

The boom in mass production created more jobs in urban areas and women started to enter the workforce in larger numbers and earn their own disposable income. Opportunities were opening up outside the domestic sphere and women were beginning to establish their place in the political and public realms, though there was still a long way to go.

Pictured here, a group of American suffragists sit in a reception room and watch women's rights activist Alice Paul sew stars onto a banner in celebration of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment.

1920s homes: how people lived in the Roaring Twenties