Women

Question 1

Political negatives

Answer 1

Underrepresented in the party
70%of divorce came from men
Did not hold high or many positions within the party
Only 4 men within the politburo

Question 2

Political positives

Answer 2

1917-zhenotdel
Lenin declared men and women equal (can vote)
Divorce easier and abortion legalised(1918)
1927- campaign against the veiling of women
Able to join the party

Question 3

Social positive

Answer 3

K+B focused on lives of rural women
WW2 improved women’s status
89 received highest military award
Growth of higher education under k women could go to university
B enforced payment for divorce
First women in space Valentina Tereshkova

Question 4

Social negative

Answer 4

Divorce rose from 4-50 roubles
Remaining of abortion under Stalin
Unable to advance careers (double burden)
Improvenebt mainly in cities not countryside
1920’s- 39% of men used prostitutes
Stalin great retreat meant traditional views on women returned

Question 5

Economic positive

Answer 5

Gained jobs in factories
Jobs in teaching and nursing
Jobs during WW2
1940- 41% of workers in heavy industry were women
60’s- 45% industrial jobs went to women
800,000 soviet women served in red army
1955- 49% of soviet workforce was women

Question 6

Economy negative

Answer 6

Likely to lose jobs to men
Received little to no financial support for childcare from exhusbands
Worked relatively unskilled low paid jobs
Women doing the same jobs as men were only paid around 60% of men’s wages