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RADE go Welcome! M1111/1/1 A review of "Women in Russia", edited by Dorothy Atkinson, Alexander Dallin and Gail Warshofsky Lapidus and published by Harvester Press at £12.50.
The Communist Parties throughout the world are fond of claiming that women are totally liberated in the Soviet Union. Women in Russia examines this claim, and provides us with a well-rounded picture of the real lives of these women.
The strongest conclusion that emerges from the book (although this is not fully recognised by the authors) is that formal, legal, equal rights for women is only a small part of women's liberation, Legal equality Soviet women enjoy complete legal equality. 85% of them go out to work, and equal opportunities in education and jobs are far advanced. Half the student population are women, as are two-thirds of doctors and teachers. There are even more women engineers in the Soviet Union than in all other countires combined.
And yet women remain oppressed. Why? Because the responsibility for child-care and other domestic tasks remains firmly on the shoulders of individual women.
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