Frustrated wives, lazy husbands and signs of change
Marx proclaimed it, Lenin insisted on it, and the Soviet constitution guarantees it: equality of the sexes, including comparable pay for comparable work. Some of the statistics are impressive: most of the doctors, three-quarters of the teachers and one-third of the engineers are women. So are half of all university and institute students and nearly 60% of those with technical or vocational training in high school or beyond.
Still, Soviet women are second-class comrades. Top jobs have a way of going to men. In medicine, a profession with much less prestige in the Soviet...
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