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?

Women in the USSR

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