[somedude895]

> Soviets, while progressive on women's issues

We’re they ever actually, in the sense that they wanted to improve women‘s lives for simply moral reasons? It always seemed to me to be merely for 1. the purpose of increasing their workforce and economical productivity, and 2. the weakening of family ties for easier indoctrination of the youth.

[watwut]

Women already worked in low level factories and such when feasible. Because of need to eat. What was new was limiting the workday for women (or moms) to shorter then men had.