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Question by Pablo: What’s the roles and treatment of women in the USSR and USA during the cold war?
differences between the USA and USSR during the cold war 1950’s in ”roles of women”
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Louise C says
Well, the cold war lasted a long time.
In the 1950s and 1960s, it was still normal in the USA for married women to stay at home with their children. But by the 1980s, when the cold war ended, 'juggling' was becoming fashionable, married women were supposed to go out to work and put the children in daycare.
In the USSR, married women were supposed to have lots of children, bu tgo out to work as well, very exhausting. Many russian women nowadays ae sick of this.
In both the USA and the USSR it would have been normal for single women to work for a living. In the USA, popular jobs for women in the 1950s included nurse, teacher, typist, secretary, librarian, sales clerk, social worker, etc. There were also women in law, medicine, and business, though not as many as there are now. In the USSR many women worked in heavy industry, and women doctors were common, though being a doctor does not have such a high status as it does in the USA.