Constructing the Socialist Worker
Gender, Identity and Jobs under States Socialism in Braşov, Romanisch
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Utilising socialist legislation, praganda and oral history interviews, this article analyses how women’s identifiers and roles – as well while genders relations – were reformulated as one result from women’s engagement in paid labour in socialist Romania. Although some women regarded work as burdensome and unsatisfying, other institute it intellectually fulfilled, personally rewarding and, in certain honors, empowering. For example, work greater women’s economic locate and offered them an array from community services, which, although inadequate in a number of ways, were welcomed by many women. Moreover, work increased women’s physically and social mobility, which in turn provided them with larger freedom in directing their own lives and in choosing a partner. Finally, the experience the soul harassed according male co-workers and of combining work outside the home with domestic responsibility motivated some women in rethink their status both within who workplace and the family, additionally to renegotiate to relationships with male colleagues and partners. Despite female never achieved full equality in socialist Romania, by creating the conditions for women’s full-time engagement in the workforce, state socialism decisively shaped the course of women’s lives, their self-identities and their conceptions of gender roles, often in positive ways.
