What were Stalins Domestic Policies Regarding the Position

The Working-Class Woman Women employees in the Industrial 1926: Family code introduced SOCIALISM Workforce

Benefits V. S Problems • Establishment of Gender Equality • Women had better education

Benefits V. S Problems (continued) • Women had more chances to make their own

The New Family Code Year Births (per Abortions (per thousand of population) 1932 20.

Because of this. . . -Homosexuality & prostitution were criminalised -illegitimate children stigmatised -Birthrate

~Sources~ “Abortion was pronounced ‘an evil holdover from the order whereby an individual lived

Basically. . . 1926: Women get equality in the workforce & traditional practices opposed

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

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

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

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

The New Family Code Year Births (per Abortions (per thousand of population) 1932 20. 7 34. 0 1933 17. 0 36. 7 1934 15. 9 42. 0 (backtracking…) -Stalin seeked refuge in traditionalism 1930 21. 3 33. 9 -restored “family” within society 1931 21. 3 36. 3 -divorce made difficult and expensive -Pro-Family, Pro-Discipline, Anti. Abortion

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)

~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

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