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- Title
Soviet women in the life of societ: achievements and problemsy .
- Authors
Motroshilova, Nelya V.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of Soviet women in the life of society. One of the most significant features of Soviet Union policy since the Soviet state came into being has been the massive involvement of women in socially useful work. For a formerly backward country, this was an unusually difficult social undertaking. Prior to the October 1983 Revolution, only a very small part of the female population of Soviet Union, especially in its outlying provinces, was employed in industry or in socially useful activities. Although the overwhelming majority of women performed extremely heavy and really punishing work in the family and at home, there were undeniable obstacles to their employment in social production. Women lacked the necessary vocational training and 83.4 per cent of them were illiterate. To make matters even worse, there were age-old social and psychological prejudices adding their weight to the oppressed and unequal status of women. The legislation of 1917 established equal status for women and men in law and for the first time in Soviet Union's history, women were given legally guaranteed social and economic rights and privileges.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; FEMINISM; SOCIAL conditions of women; PREJUDICES; OPPRESSION; WOMEN'S rights; LEGISLATION; WOMEN social workers
- Publication
International Social Science Journal, 1983, Vol 35, Issue 98, p733
- ISSN
0020-8701
- Publication type
Article