women under lenin

• the nep led to widespread unemployment of women
• female prostituation was widespread as it was legal - during the 1920s 39% of men used prostitutes
• during the NEP , there was only 8 female tractor drivers across the whole soviet union
• The family code of 1918 made divorce easier.  No reasons for divorce were needed.
• From 1920  abortion was legalised.
• By 1926 50% of marriages in Moscow ended in divorce. 
• 1927 Marriage Law: Abortion made easier
• From 1919 , women were given a legal right to equal pay for work and equal voting rights 
• Contraception became legal 
• Men and women who were living together given same rights as legally married couples 
• Had established education schemes for women in factories and set quotas to ensure women were represented in all levels of education
• zhenotdel recruited women from towns to fill jobs in nursing and food distribution during civil war
• when the civil war ended, women working in industry were sacked so that men could take the industrial jobs