Theme 4: Women Stalin
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- Created on: 20-05-22 17:33
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- Stalin: Women in USSR
- Countryside
- Women continued to work the triple shift
- 1) Agricultural labour
- 2) Household chores
- 3) Handicrafts for additional income
- Farmer managers carried out "medical virginity checks" to enforce abstinence
- Women continued to work the triple shift
- Urban
- WW2 women made up 75% of the urban workforce
- but payed 60-65% of men's wages
- Subject to verbal, physical and sexual abuse in factories
- Women were hardly ever promoted
- Large increase in female workforce due to demands of the 5 Year Plans
- > 10 million joined labour force 1940
- a 300% increase in female labour
- > 10 million joined labour force 1940
- WW2 women made up 75% of the urban workforce
- Rights
- "The Great Retreat"
- Father's forced to pay a minimum of 1/3 of their income to their former wives
- 1936
- Divorce made expensive and harder to enact
- Policies emphasised stable families; saw this as integral for successful society
- Sexual rights
- Sex outside of marriage stigmatised
- Farmer managers carried out "medical virginity checks" to enforce abstinence
- Pronatalist policy offering financial reward for childbirth
- 2k roubles each year for 5 years if you have 7+ children
- 5k roubles each year for 5 years if you have 11+ children
- Abortion criminalised unless life of the mother was at risk
- Contraception banned
- Lesbianism treated as a "disease"
- Could be subject to hypnotherapy to "cure" them
- Sex outside of marriage stigmatised
- "The Great Retreat"
- Countryside
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