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What were Stalin’s Domestic Policies Regarding the Position of Women ?

What were Stalin’s Domestic Policies Regarding the Position of Women ?. Noel Dube. The Working-Class Woman. Women employees in the Industrial Workforce 1928= 2,795,000 1939= 13,000,000 Industrial workforce 1933: women made up 33% 1940: women made up 43%.

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What were Stalin’s Domestic Policies Regarding the Position of Women ?

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  1. What were Stalin’s Domestic Policies Regarding the Position of Women ? Noel Dube

  2. The Working-Class Woman Women employees in the Industrial Workforce 1928= 2,795,000 1939= 13,000,000 Industrial workforce 1933: women made up 33% 1940: women made up 43% 1926: Family code introduced SOCIALISM -common law marriages same rights as registered -raised minimum age of marriage -khudzhum -equal education -opposition to traditional practices -nurseries & canteens to allow mothers to work

  3. BenefitsV.SProblems • Cultural Outrage • Decline in Population growth • Increase in crime • failure of family values • restricted from highest jobs • Establishment of Gender Equality • Women had better education • There was more cultural freedom • mothers were able to hold jobs

  4. BenefitsV.SProblems (continued) • 37% of Marriages ended in Divorce • 150,000 abortions for every 57,000 live births in Moscow • Women faced a double burdenof family work and their jobs • Women had more chances to make their own decisions • Readily available abortions • Freedom from polygamy

  5. The New Family Code (backtracking…) -Stalin seeked refuge in traditionalism -restored “family” within society -divorce made difficult and expensive -Pro-Family, Pro-Discipline, Anti-Abortion

  6. Because of this... -Homosexuality & prostitution were criminalised -illegitimate children stigmatised -Birthrate rise from 2.5% (1935) to 3.1% (1940) -Mothers of many children received benefits -Divorce rates declined (but so did marriage rates)

  7. ~Sources~ “Abortion was pronounced ‘an evil holdover from the order whereby an individual lived according to narrow personal interests…’” S. Kotin, 1995 “...Strengthening the Soviet family we mean the fight against the wrong attitudes towards marriage, women, and children. Free love and disorderly sex life have nothing in common with socialist principles…” pravda, 1936

  8. Basically... 1926: Women get equality in the workforce & traditional practices opposed 1936: New Family code: encourage bigger families to increase population growth 1939: 79% doctors were Women (Women continue to grow within the workforce) -13 million women in the workforce 1944: Only registered marriages were recognised

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