Patriarchy’s long roots
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The Russian Revolution and the So-Called Kitchen Debate
In the 1950s, when the Soviet Union was pushing for gender equality, more women were going into higher education and into work. But in the US exactly the opposite was happening. This ideology of the domesticated woman really took hold. It created a kind of oppositional binary between the East and the West. And it also meant that gains around women's rights were slower in the US as a result.
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