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Women in the USSR 
1. What could a society achieve if large numbers 
of women began to work outside the home? 
2. What problems might the women or the 
society as a whole encounter?
Soviet Women! Be the first 
in line for the national 
struggle to successfully 
fulfill the Five-Year Plan in 
four years!
Women workers. Take 
up your rifles!
WOMEN AFTER THE REVOLTION 
• Abortion was legalized and free (until 
1936) 
• Free contraceptive advice 
• Minimum marriage age laws 
established 
• Polygamy and bride money banned 
• Access to free education – by 1939 
33% of engineers and 79% of doctors 
were women 
• Access to free healthcare 
• Paid holidays 
• Accident insurance at work 
• Nurseries established to assist 
working women
To mother for the next feeding
Children are our Future
The Soviet Woman

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The Soviet Woman

  • 1. Women in the USSR 1. What could a society achieve if large numbers of women began to work outside the home? 2. What problems might the women or the society as a whole encounter?
  • 2. Soviet Women! Be the first in line for the national struggle to successfully fulfill the Five-Year Plan in four years!
  • 3. Women workers. Take up your rifles!
  • 4. WOMEN AFTER THE REVOLTION • Abortion was legalized and free (until 1936) • Free contraceptive advice • Minimum marriage age laws established • Polygamy and bride money banned • Access to free education – by 1939 33% of engineers and 79% of doctors were women • Access to free healthcare • Paid holidays • Accident insurance at work • Nurseries established to assist working women
  • 5. To mother for the next feeding