Theme 4: Women Stalin

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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
    • 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
    • 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

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