My topic is about the women and the difficult and exciting things they went through as a Soviet Union citizen. A Soviet Union woman had the natural action of raising up her children and a mistress of her home. The soviet people considered women with children to be “working mothers.” Most soviet women worked and did household chores, they needed to have full time jobs and take care of a huge family. Some would be a part of fighting in wars and being a part of their army. Others worked as scientists, fliers, engineers, physicians and tractor driving; there isn’t any branch of industry that women can’t do. Men and women would get an equal pay for an equal work, but of course there were different wages. Some soviet women were interested in sports and athletics. The sportswomen mainly had awards in parachute jumping and flying. Soviet women were permitted to have abortions but it was mostly very painful and brutal. During the Soviet Union era, people dismissed gender in everyday life. The category of gender was not considered important to the Soviet Union. As well as changing gender expectations, soviet women were to work hard at their daily jobs and then come home to care for their women and children. Most successful out of all the women were the ones that stayed single and childless, therefore later had the opportunity to become a manager or a boss. Later, on June 27, 1936, the soviet government established a decree, announcing prohibiting abortion, but the pregnancy could endanger the mother in her life or health. There could also be a possibility of inheriting a disease from its parents.Most women would love to keep their babies and raise them like any mother would do. To have the government tell you that you would have to kill your baby, makes me angry and annoyed that a group of people only cared about themselves and the other percentage of society; the men. In the earlier years of the Soviet Union, right after world war one, the government stated that women were not allowed to keep their babies and must have an abortion. This would help working women to be more successful at their jobs. It’s surprising that many women turned toward abortion; an estimate of about 500 abortions a year. I believe that having abortions are wrong for the baby. It doesn’t even have a chance to live in the real world. It makes me so sad to think that an innocent human being is going to die for a mistake you made and did. I completely disagree with the abortion process. I wouldn’t be able to be happy and I would have many regrets. It would make me sick to my stomach to know that I killed my son or daughter. I would not be able to live with myself. I would also have many questions on what it would look like when it got older and what it would be like in characteristics.
