Women and the family under Brezhnev Flashcards
Larger numbers of women joined the Party after 1953. Between 1956 and 1983 the proportion of women in the Party increased from…
19.7 per cent to 26 per cent
Women were never more than ___ per cent of the Central Committee between 1953 and 1985
4
Increased participation of women in the workforce and an increasingly educated female population did not lead to…
a rise in the proportion of women in government
What did Brezhnev continue to stress?
The centrality of the family to Soviet life
Under Brezhnev much less was done to try to improve…
the status of women. Officially, the government proclaimed that sexual equality had been achieved
The lack of women in the most senior jobs in industry, agriculture and government was explained by…
women’s “natural” desire to focus on their families
The government banned information about…
women’s campaigns in the West being reported in the Soviet press in order to try to suppress debates about women’s roles and sexual oppression
Brezhnev tended to think of women primarily as…
unskilled workers whose prime goal was having children
Sexual morality was strict - provide evidence to support this claim
- Male homosexuality was a crime
- Lesbianism was a mental disorder
- Sex was about making babies rather than pleasure
Within the home _____ ____ endured. By ___, official figures indicated that women spent twice as much time doing _____ _____ as men. Brezhnev viewed this as part of the _____ ____ and applauded women for their _____. As noted above, Brezhnev’s main concern was for women to have more ____ and to look after them ____. Therefore the government did _____ to address _____ _____ in _____ labour
traditional
roles
domestic
chores
natural order
sacrifice
babies
properly
nothing
sexual
inequality
domestic
Brezhnev did introduce some reforms to make women’s lives easier - give an example
He lowered the pension age for women from 60 to 55
