the soviet woman
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Soviet womenTRANSCRIPT
1. What could a society achieve if large numbers of women began to work outside the home?
2. What problems might the women or the society as a whole encounter?
Women in the USSR
Soviet Women! Be the first in line for the national struggle to successfully fulfill the Five-Year Plan in four years!
Women workers. Take up your rifles!
WOMEN AFTER THE REVOLTION • Abortion was legalized and free (until
1936)• Free contraceptive advice• Minimum marriage age laws
established• Polygamy and bride money banned• Access to free education – by 1939
33% of engineers and 79% of doctors were women
• Access to free healthcare• Paid holidays• Accident insurance at work• Nurseries established to assist
working women
To mother for the next feeding
Children are our Future