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which of the following was not a changing gender norm of the 1920s and prohibition era?
4. women drank alongside men in speakeasies
The advent of Prohibition in the United States in 1920 made illegal any saloon that continued to sell liquor. In rural areas, illegal bars operated much as before out of barns and the backdoors of pharmacies.
Those clubs were far from the norm as few speakeasies could afford the risk brought on by public notoriety. Speakeasies during Prohibition helped foster a change in drinking culture in the united states. Before the 18th amendment drinking was a gender-segregated activity. Men drank in saloons and the abuse of alcohol while regretful was viewed as a male activity. Women drank as well but were expected to do so at home. As drinking moved out of the home the speakeasy become a drinking space that challenged gendered patterns of alcohol consumption.
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