RUSSIAN WOMEN
EQUAL RIGHTS WITH MEN According to the Soviet Constitution, “women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all fields of economic, State, cultural, social and political life.” In 1940 the number of Russian women engaged in remunerative employment, excluding agriculture, was as high as eleven million, of whom five million were in industry and transport, states the International Women’s News. These women are employed as engine-drivers, locksmiths, and precision tool workers. On the collective farms, 19 million women are engaged, and the Commissariats of the Army and Navy are empowered to call up women with special technical qualifications for the auxiliary services.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 116, 20 May 1942, Page 2
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107RUSSIAN WOMEN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 116, 20 May 1942, Page 2
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