Yet, as strange as it may sound to many people today, people enjoyed life to the fullest, despite not having the above things. They were contented with the simple things of life. People had more time for one another, not like today, where you see so many persons walking around with hand-held devices, ignoring everything and everyone around them. Everyone knew everyone else and spoke and mingled with each other on a daily basis. The family was united; most men worked and most women stayed at home, choosing to be housewives, even though a group of women was beginning to challenge the role of women in American society as circumscribed by the standards of the days: they were known as Suffragettes, who would be forerunners of the Women's Liberation movement of 70 years later.