Women and the Family - Khrushchev's Successes and Failures

Question 1

1. What was the first woman in space in 1963 celebrated as?
2. What was legalised again in 1955?
3. In 1956, state paid maternity leave increased from what to what?

Answer 1

1. USSR’s new woman hero.
2. Abortion.
3. Aprox. 80 to 110 days.

Question 2

1. What was expanded under the 6th Five-Year Plan from 1956?
2. What did the 7-Year Plan aim to eliminate?
   - What did they introduce to do this?
3. What were families no longer confined to?

Answer 2

1. Creches and childcare facilities.
2. The double shift.
   - Convenience food & mass produced clothing.
3. Traditional ideas.

Question 3

1. However, Khrushchev still focused on women’s rights within what?
2. What were women still unable to do?
   - Why?
3. In the Virgin Lands Scheme, what jobs did women tend to do?
   - What was common in the Virgin Lands?
4. What % of those in clerical positions within health and education were women?

Answer 3

1. A traditional context.
2. Work full days.
   - Creches were not open all day.
3. Lowest-paid and most demanding.
   - Sexual abuse and rape.
4. 70%.