Calm Radio - Women of Jazz - Markham, ON

After the end of the first World War, women's suffrage was at its peak with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Taking a ... See more greater part in the workforce, women started to make a big statement within society and gained more independence and freedom of expression and sexuality. Up until the 1920s, women singing Jazz music was not common but women playing Jazz instruments was even less common.