WOMEN GREAT RETREAT
- Created by: 10cmurphy
- Created on: 17-04-17 12:24
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- The Great Retreat: women
- Women at work
- Between 1928-1941, number of women in industry increased
- 41% of workers in heavy industry were women
- Gov increased opportunities for women
- Inequality in terms of pay
- Women at home
- Were expected to run the home and work
- Domestic role of women emphasised by Communists
- Sex and babies
- 1936-homosexuality and adultery criminalised
- Contraception and abortion banned and gov promoted a large family
- Incentives for having more children and state help provided to mothers with more then 6
- Marriage and divorce
- 1930's-Stalin re-emphasised importance of marriage
- 1936-wedding rings reintroduced
- Wedding certificates printed on high-quality paper
- Divorce made more complex and more expensive
- Men who had affairs named and shamed in newspapers
- Women at work
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