WOMEN GREAT RETREAT

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  • 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

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