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Women's Political Representation Improvement

During the socialist era, women’s emancipation and formal equality between women and men were proclaimed as an important victory of the communist regime. Media pictures of women tractor-drivers, soldiers or crane-operators were to demonstrate equal opportunities for women and men. Female factory workers or agricultural cooperative farm members were heroines of communist propaganda and their smiling faces appeared at all panels and posters celebrating a working woman. The ideal of a socialist woman was reflected in her heroic triple role of a worker, a political functionary and a mother.

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