p By doing away with private ownership and exploitation socialism puts an end to all oppression and inequality, including the inequality of women. It makes for, a harmonious family, frees it from the influence of the’ principles of private ownership and creates conditions for the family and marriage to rest on the love, friendship and cooperation of husband and wife. Here the woman has equal rights with man. She has every opportunity to work and get paid on a par with men, be active in public life and in administering society, and to develop intellectually. Women in the USSR comprise a considerable part of industrial workers, collective farmers and the intelligentsia; they make up the majority of school teachers, medical workers and the personnel of the service industry. Hundreds of women are deputies of the highest organ of state power, the USSR Supreme Soviet. Women participate in all spheres of social activity thanks to the concern for women, mothers and children on the part of socialist society, which has built numerous nurseries, kindergartens, boarding schools, public catering establishments and set up an extensive service industry. All this helps to strengthen the family and introduce socialist, truly humane principles into family relations. A socialist family is a qualitatively new type of family created by the very essence of socialism, by socialist social relations.

It should be borne in mind that survivals of the past, primarily a certain inequality of women in family, in everyday life, continue to exist under socialism. In a socialist society a family has its household economy and most of the tasks involved are performed by women who as a rule also play a great part in bringing up children. Survivals of the old, feudal attitude to women (early marriages, bride-money, etc.) still exist in some national republics. The last vestiges of the inequality of women will gradually disappear in the 280 course of communist construction. Society will assume the main burden of the provision of everyday services and child upbringing. Under communism a family will cease to be an economic cell, but it will continue to perform the functions of regulating relations between sexes, ot reproduction and, partially, of bringing up children. Family relations wil-1 lose their class nature and will be governed by standards of communist morality.