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...Tatyanna Mamonova a writes that the Soviet government has made significant steps to ensure pay equity between men and women in the workforce, a reform that is called for in almost all the other essays. What feminists in the USSR are greatly concerned about, we learn, is the lack of accessibility of birth control, leading to a situation where it is not unusual for a Soviet women to have fourteen abortions in her lifetime...
...women's movement has the greatest potential of any movement in the Soviet Union," Soviet feminist Tatyana Mamonova last night told a mostly female audience of about 150 at the Cronkhite Center...
Speaking through a translator, Mamonova cited the populous majority of women in the Soviet Union and the existence of equal rights provisions in the U.S.S.R. constitution as reasons for this potential, but warned that "the movement is very young and the patriarchal tradition is still ingrained in Soviet society...
...Mamonova, a painter and poet, last year conceived and edited the first Soviet feminist journal, "Women and Russia." Despite her forced exile from the USSR last July, she hopes to continue writing about Soviet feminist issues for a Soviet audience...
Feminist author Robin Morgan accompanied Mamonova, whose visit to the United States is being sponsored by Ms. Magazine...