women under brezhnev

• The Soviet government continued to stress the centrality of the family in Soviet life
• The Soviet government banned information about women's campaigns in the West from being reported in Soviet magazines
• The Soviet government promoted a strict sexual morality
• The Soviet government lowered the pension age for women from 60 to 55
• There was a lack of women in the most senior jobs in agriculture, industry and government in the Soviet Union
• Traditional roles in the home were adopted in the Soviet Union, with official figures in 1982 indicating that women spent twice as much time doing domestic chores as men did
• Soviet propaganda emphasised that a true Soviet woman should be an exemplary worker and caring wife and mother
• The tone of Soviet propaganda became even more conservative in the 1970s
• The Soviet government initiated a campaign to recruit women from urban centres in their mid-20s to work on the BAM (Baikal-Amur Mainline) project, as male workers and administrators staffing the project would want female workers as company
• The BAM project was seen as an opportunity for women to gain liberation through work and building new homes in the north of the USSR
• The BAM project was male-dominated, and the publicity implied that the female workers would have the pick of men, in contrast to a male minority in Soviet society
• The BAM publicity also emphasised other traditional aspects of womanhood