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Everything you described - grilling in front of your colleagues, the lack of real estate options - applied to men in equal measure.  There was nothing woman-specific in it.

I grew up in the USSR, and I'm actually agnostic on Putin.  There were many things that sucked about USSR, and there were many that didn't.  Chief among those that didn't was education and extracurriculars available to all children.  I live in a million-dollar house in one of the highest-cost of living areas in the country. Yet we struggle, financially and logistically, to give my children the same education and extracurricular options  that were available in the old country to all and sundry, for free. It is what it is. [/quote]

Even if it applied equally to men and women, how could that make women more, so to says, sexually empowered and satisfied than womem in the West? I'll repeat, and if you grew up in the USSR you know it perfectly well, - Soviet culture was extremely prudish. Sex was a huge taboo. The idea that women were more content in communist countries is too absurd to even discuss.[/quote]

I don't know about sexual empowerment.  I do know that [b]politically and socially women were empowered close to equally with men[/b].  No one in the USSR made a big to-do about women running for office, performing surgery, working, voting, or going on paid maternity leave. It was a society poorly ran in many ways but these ways were equally available to both genders.

Prudishness about sex was not specific to the USSR, there was a time when the whole world was prudish about sex. It probably lasted longer in the USSR than before. I don't really know if you can make an argument that at one point of time in history, women of West German were less prudish than their eastern sisters.

Sexual contentment comes from many things. Lack of stress about tomorrow certainly plays a role. [/quote]

In regards to the bolded statement - that may be true only if the women weren't minorities.  Jews, Muslims, Jehovah Witnesses, etc., were/are heavily discriminated against whether they were male or female.  [/quote]

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