ABSTRACT
The popular image of the employed woman in the Soviet Union is made up of two possibly inconsistent components. Agricultural labour, on the other hand, or local government manual work are job categories that contain large numbers of Soviet women indeed, they are two of the most common job categories in the census returns. The measurement of horizontal segregation in the USSR poses both conceptual and empirical problems. Population censuses are relatively infrequent; they permit, then, only infrequent estimates of the scale of horizontal segregation. In view of the fact that the classification schemas used in Soviet censuses are based on inconsistent principles of disaggregation and, especially, since job categories contain substantially different numbers of workers, it does not seem appropriate to use the job category as the unit of measurement in determining the extent of horizontal segregation.
