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position of woman in the family has hardly
changed for the better.
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He goes on to say:
Up till now the concept of inequality between
men and women has been so deeply rooted
not only in the lesser educated people but also
in the highly educated Soviet people as well
as in women themselves, that if, on occasion,
women are treated as having full equality
with men, this is attributed to men’s weakness
and impotency. If we pursue the thoughts of
any scientist, writer, student, businessman, or
hundred percent communist, we shall soon
realize that he does not in his heart of hearts
regard woman as his equal. If we read any
recent novel, however free a thinker the writer
might be, we shall certainly find something or
the other in it which will expose as superficial
his concept of woman as equal to man.
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The reason is that this revolutionary concept clashes
with an extremely important fact, i.e. that in respect
of biology, both sexes are not equal, both are not
meant to shoulder an equal amount of burden.
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