The Soviet Union’s claim to full employment did not only include the male portion of the population. We are definite that more women made themselves available for work during the late 1930s. However, it must be noted that this likely was not because of a change in society’s attitudes towards women. Industrialisation was not going to work unless everyone, including women were willing to contribute. In terms of employment women may have been equal to men, but in the Soviet Union this still meant they were simply seen as units of labour not people. Nonetheless the Soviet Union did not lose its sense of traditional values when it came to motherhood. Women were still viewed in the same light as they had been in previous years. Women
