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> Culture definitely plays a role. Soviet Union making women totally equal, mandating and promoting equal participation from women in all aspects of life defini
by badpun 4y ago
> Culture definitely plays a role. Soviet Union making women totally equal, mandating and promoting equal participation from women in all aspects of life definitely broke the longstanding cultural norms about 'what women should be doing in work life'
Yep. My grandma worked in a freaking coal mine in the 1940s. There were hardly if any "men only" jobs. It was also necessary because so many men died during the war that, without women's wide participation in labor, the economies would hardly work.
> most of which came from especially Christian religion traditions.
I don't think that's it. Pre-Christianity Europe was the same. It's just a deeply rooted, many millenia-long tradition, very similar as in other agricultural societies BTW.
- unity1001 4y agoNope. Despite there have been division of labor and traditions historically, semitic religions - foremost Christianity - are what codified the 'lower status' of women, including how they were beneath men, or even 'sinful and dangerous'. You have no idea how it was during the middle ages until Cathars, despite having been persecuted and massacred, have changed the perception of women to the 'bad' state that we later knew. Before Cathars, it was much worse.
- GoldenMonkey 4y agoInteresting viewpoint considering that Christianity was the only religion one could join without tribal, ethnic or blood ties. The only religion open and accepting of others at the time. And even women had equal standing before God. Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” And that is why the Roman Emperor Constantine, was able to embrace it as Rome’s state religion.