ABSTRACT
Since the first years of Soviet power, one of the basic principles of social and economic construction in the country has been de jure and de facto equality of women in all spheres of political, social, and economic life. Soviet society has recorded a series of historic achievements in solving problems of female labor, achievements that are universally recognized. They include full employment of Soviet women in socially useful activity and the world's highest rate of female employment; equal pay for equal work by men and women; and high level of female educational and occupational training. All these achievements are based on a state system of protection of motherhood and children and systematic resolution of the contradictions of female labor. The specific problems of female labor are not secondary. They can be resolved only within a complex of political, economic, and organizational measures, the preparation of which requires specialized knowledge and a special approach.
