ABSTRACT
In none of the other countries examined in the P.E.P. study has so sustained and forceful an effort been made to bring women into business and social leadership as in the Marxist countries of Eastern Europe. Some features of this effort are specific to these countries, but many are of universal relevance and separable from the application of a generally Marxist system. The experience of Eastern Europe thus provides a useful perspective in which to foresee the future problems of Western countries, especially as regards the problems which remain when the formal and traditional barriers to women's progress still common in the West have been abolished. The Soviet Union now has more than half a century of experience in this field, and the other East European countries most of a generation, and it is with their experience that it is useful to begin.
