On the other hand, it didnt do nearly enough to abolish patriarchal relations. So women had two things to deal with - be fully emancipated and participate in work and the like, but at the same time still do the usual domestic work, take care of the kids and so on. So while it did very good on the education and professional front, it really didn't handle the domestic front that well. Do remember to not glorify the USSR, acknowledge the things it did good, but also recognize that in many ways it did little to dismantle many reactionary views in society and sexism was just as rampant as elsewhere.
do the usual domestic work, take care of the kids and so on.
There were significant attempts to socialize domestic labor and counter the patriarchal nature of house work. Creches were plentiful and accessible. Divorce was much easier in the East Block than the west and didn't incur social or material costs. The high level employment of women and accessibility of divorce and single parenting had an effect on the division of domestic labor. Women of the Eastern Block report that pre collapse men were more egalitarian and participatory in house work.
I was just watching some thing about Polish people who were sent to Siberia by the USSR during WWII and they said the Soviets had woman do non-household work even as they tried to maintain their "domestic" roles to "hold on to their culture" lol.
Idk in my home country there definitely were very big social costs from divorce. That effect must have been small and limited to a few places, at least based on all the stuff I have grown up hearing about and talking from the older women around me and from engaging with literature and art from the soviet era, as well as with the attitudes of people who have grown up under communism.
On the other hand, it didnt do nearly enough to abolish patriarchal relations. So women had two things to deal with - be fully emancipated and participate in work and the like, but at the same time still do the usual domestic work, take care of the kids and so on. So while it did very good on the education and professional front, it really didn't handle the domestic front that well. Do remember to not glorify the USSR, acknowledge the things it did good, but also recognize that in many ways it did little to dismantle many reactionary views in society and sexism was just as rampant as elsewhere.
There were significant attempts to socialize domestic labor and counter the patriarchal nature of house work. Creches were plentiful and accessible. Divorce was much easier in the East Block than the west and didn't incur social or material costs. The high level employment of women and accessibility of divorce and single parenting had an effect on the division of domestic labor. Women of the Eastern Block report that pre collapse men were more egalitarian and participatory in house work.
Anthropological research shows that this is simply untrue. The communist block performed appreciably better than the west.
I was just watching some thing about Polish people who were sent to Siberia by the USSR during WWII and they said the Soviets had woman do non-household work even as they tried to maintain their "domestic" roles to "hold on to their culture" lol.
who made that thing you watched?
It was this: http://polishatheart.com/the-wwii-polish-deportations-still-an-untold-story
Idk in my home country there definitely were very big social costs from divorce. That effect must have been small and limited to a few places, at least based on all the stuff I have grown up hearing about and talking from the older women around me and from engaging with literature and art from the soviet era, as well as with the attitudes of people who have grown up under communism.