Comment by klibertp

Well... It depends, I suppose, what you define as equality. I'm too young to actually remember this, but I know from various sources that women under communist regimes, at least in central Europe, were seen as capable of working as hard as men. There are many posters of women driving agricultural machines (I don't know the word in English - something that's used to harvest cereal) and doing various other works that are traditionally associated with men. Aside from posters there were poems, novels and plays written that depicted women in the similar fashion, and later even tv shows, some of which are still popular today, showed women as soldiers, spies or even "entrepreneurs" of a kind. They supposedly had no problem with getting into colleges too. I don't know how much of this is true, but I guess the communists really did something for gender equality; I won't tell you what exactly and how much of an impact it had though.