Show OMEN Mf OCCUPY CUrf 4 l LARGE f H ROLE lf IN I Officeholders Numerous Change Is Startling I By EUGENE LYONS te Press Staff Correspondent ill SCOW Dec 22 United Press h Iii ho increasingly important iolet role iole t red by women in government and every other branch of ofIn ofIn In the new Russia has Just been tight into stron strong relief on the theIon aslon Ion of the tenth anniversary of t j first congress of working and kt sant nt women I bat at gathering In November H j 8 P was summoned by Nadejda Nadeida 1 Mrs Lenin Olga Kolt Koltai Kol- Kol t tai Anna and other mea men mea communists who are arc still The rhe live iv v In the soviet regime anniversary celebrated the soviet union was d de di an excuse for fOl calling atten- atten to the place of woman woman- in the thear theas ar C soviet society I change is far short of the bilious goals Koals set by the tha first t The Russian woman has hasa a sc absolute legal and hI lal ei equality alIt with the man She SheE E excluded from no trade from c. c government post from no pub pub- duty There ate are women in the fi i In the navy in the police ces m in high posts Deliberty De- De liberty however she is r mans man's Inferior here a good many centuries of oft t to make up The Tho achieve achieve- a high post by a woman is I news even in the land of the theft ther ft lets r STARTLING one remembers the tho in- in 3 woman had under the 1 change appears almost In the peasant villages 1 HOin the tho old days women were s set chattel slaves of their busIs bus hus- ris Is they now have more than 11 cent of the membership of lo- lo In the c of the fed fed- ted ed socialist republics the pertA per per- z y-z tA tage Is even larger over larger over 21 per pertile 3 f jo tile the delegates to Soviets are aren if n i. i r. r women served as of total local soviets Last Lasta a ir posts were held by men a Six years ago only forty forty- t out of every 1000 voters in peas peas- districts were women Last year 1 out of every 1000 who voted for were women In 3 1 cities tellies more women participate It tile the soviet elections than men mendi men men- di out of every 1000 in the federI feder- feder I socialist republics to be prellso pre pre- U EMPLOYMENT HIGH Increases in women's par par- are revealed in the sta sta- ics for fer the cooperative E trade unions communist parcells parr par par- r cells etc whole of soviet industry ien workers constitute 29 per perI tot fot the tue total being I chiefly in the rubber cco and textile industries in all 45 they represent more than J I lia le number of workers IT part of the price of the new don om perhaps more and more moreen en are work but bat are I We ble to find it The fhe official f fIg Ig- 5 re of unemployment show that per er cent of those seeking work women They also reveal that too the average it takes an F d twelve and one half I to find a job whereas it tsa sa man an Average of seven one hall one month |