ABSTRACT
The basic norms and regulations regarding women's working and living conditions were adopted during the first years of Soviet power: equal right to work, prohibition of employment underground and in some other jobs, at night, and on overtime, and paid pregnancy and maternity leave. Factory and office managers were ordered to help pregnant women and nursing mothers by issuing them additional food grown on subsidiary farms. Enterprises and offices which extensively employed female labor were instructed to organize day nurseries, kindergartens, baby feeding rooms, and personal hygiene rooms for women. Special labor protection provisions are in force for pregnant women, nursing mothers and mothers of babies up to one year old. Article 69 of the Principles prohibits their employment in night and overtime jobs or sending them on business trips. The achievements in economic expansion made it possible to increase material benefits for mothers and expand the system of children's preschool establishments on a national scale.
