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Women made minimal progress in regards to their economic advancement and…
Women made minimal progress in regards to their economic advancement and independence in the years 1928-82
Lenin
70,000 in red army but never in high positions and first to be demobilised
under NEP, women were the first to be unemployed, and many turned to prostitution
39% of urban men regularly used prostitutes, women were used like commodities
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Stalin
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were treated poorly and underpaid: received 60% of wages that men did, on average
this is because child labour had been banned 1922, so women now represented the cheapest labour. exploited to increase industrialisation
sometimes men refused to work on teams with women in factories, as they were seen as bad luck
in agriculture, there were 50,000 female tractor drivers with a high wage. One example being Pasha Angelina, whose all female tractor driving team reached 129% of the local quota.
she was only illuminated as she represented the token devoted socialist woman, akin to stakhanovite movement
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K + B
K encouraged women to partake in Virgin Land Schemes, especially younger available women, to promote family growth on the land
women would do menial, smaller jobs on the farms, such as being a milkmaid, and still spent 5x as long on domestic duties than their male counterparts
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similarly, B encouraged women to join the BAM railway as Bamovkas, again young and single to entice men
here they were subject to abuse and worked menial, underpaid jobs
B also had propaganda that criticised working women, blaming them for juvenile delinquency and crime, 'child neglect'