• Packet@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Vote

    New Zealand, Finland and the USSR were the first to make that a reality. Spearheaded by trade union movements and communists.

    Work

    The Soviet Union was the first country to establish legal equality in pay and employment for women, and then followed by the PRC and the wide amount of time of socdem movement in the nordic countries.

    File for divorce

    France was the first, with the french revolution. Then came the Soviet Union and after it the PRC.

    Buy a credit card

    To be honest this is absurd, but indeed the US was the first as far as I can remember. Having the right to drown in debt is good i guess.

    Buy a home or a car

    US and UK did indeed pioneer that, but it was with more focus on married women. Actual acts focused just on women were implemented by the Soviet Union with collective property and gender equality laws.

    Driver’s license

    There were little to no formal bans for that, social stigma was and is real though. Still an issue.

    Pregnant and not get fired

    USSR pioneered that in 1918, with labor codes protecting working mothers. Followed by the nordic socdem movement and the US only in the 1978

    Husband can go to jail for beating you

    USSR again, was the first to criminalize domestic battery in 1918. Although enforced unevenly it was legally punishable. Western Europe and the Northern America started it in 1970s with implementation continued to 1990s.

    Many of the achievements listed are not of liberalism or neoliberalism, they were achievements of activists and unions working in a group to protect their collective interests. In many of the cases it was the Soviet Union with the revolution spearheading these rights, because the revolution itself was started by working class women. The nordics followed with their own social democrat feminist movement. In many things the PRC came before the neoliberal states in achievements of women’s rights, and that is a state that was ravaged by war and imperialism for years. Liberalism gave little to nothing, it maintained the hierarchies, and silenced the movement. Both democrats and republicans both do not care about women’s rights. They are both parties of the same right wing on the fascist eagle.

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      20 hours ago

      What exactly could the women vote for in the USSR, or anyone for that matter?

      I guess they can vote even today in Russian 😂

      I will give you the feminism stuff embedded in the socialist system, that’s true…

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      So this is almost definitely referring to social liberalism, not economic/classical liberalism which is an entirely different thing. Some ideas of social liberalism overlap with progressivism and even socialism.

      The US happens to have two parties that are liberals - but it’s two different varieties of liberalism. Republicans are classical liberals whereas democrats for the most part are social liberals