What jobs did the flappers have and what did they drive?

In the 1920s a 'flapper' was a slender, bold young woman of the first generation in America when men and women danced apart (not holding hands or embracing, as in the waltz, etc.). Dances evolved so that girls didn't have to wait for partners-- when the music played, they got up to dance just for fun. This was viewed as very inappropriate and flirtatious by some (most) people. Some of the dance moves were so wild, frenzied, uninhibited that the girls were literally flapping their arms like birds (vis.dances like the Charleston). Thus they became known as 'flappers'.

(This was also the period in which women stopped wearing corsets-- and did not, at least not immediately, begin wearing bras.)

The 'job' of a flapper was to provide sufficient young- female population for the parties to attract gentlemen. They weren't exactly prostitutes; but they did get picked up often by fellow party guests.

As far as cars, the fact that flappers drove at all was significant. Cars were viewed as masculine machines-- even a bicycle was not so male-centric. Any woman driving a car in 1920-1927 was viewed as something less than ladylike, even less than feminine. Many thought this a dangerous trend-- and, in a certain sense, it was, because it is this period (right after the 1920 right-to-vote bill) in which women began to seem less like victims and more like controllers of their own fates. Driving a car and dancing without a partner are just two facets of this time of history.