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by stargazer-3 2562 days ago
>> wildly misrepresented the role of women in Russian society during those times

Women were better represented in USSR's STEM fields that in the US. For example, Between 1962 and 1964, women were awarded 40 percent of the chemistry PhD, while in the US that number was five percent [1].

I recently went to see my grandmother, and she showed me her Physics collage graduation pics - there was only one man in their class of ten students. And no, it was not due to WWII raising women/men ratio - born in the 30-ies her generation was too young to be drafted.

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-...