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Show A26 = The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Friday,May1995 Women Face WAM. UTAH New Woes In Russia & HARDWARE & GARDEN Ongoing PovertyIs Compounded byFears By KathyLaliy THE BALTIMORE SUN MOSCOW — Natalya Baranskaya created a sensation in 1969 whenshe published a short novel about the modern Soviet woman, vividly describing a life consumed by enormous drudgery and impossible demands. A quarter of a century later, she remainsa tart observerof the nation’s social progress. “Of course life has changed for women,” Baranskaya says. “It’s gotten much worse.” Baranskaya, 86,lives in a small apartment on the eighth floor of a tired looking building in an industrial section of Moscow. She is still writing, though her later works have not produced the shock of that first novella, “A Week Like Any Other.” “You probahly remember a wife and mother torn between work and family life,” Baranskaya said. “Of course she had a difficult life, But she didn’t have the poverty women have now.” Baranskaya is as right now as she was in 1969. Nearly 40 percent of Russians live in poverty today, earning less than $50 a month. Women are the hardest hit Families headed by single womenare the worstoff. Such families make up 14 percent of the population. And women, who make up 53 percent of the population, account for 60 percent of the unemployed. Their average salary is a third less than men’s. The heroine of Baranskaya’s 1969 story, Olga Nikolayevich Voronkova,is trapped bya different set of circumstances. She has a challenging job as scientific researcher. And she has to shop, cook, wash and clean for her husband and two young children, without benefit of a dishwasher, washing machine or car. She spendshoursevery day squeezing onto packed buses carrying a heavy load of groceries. She is spread so thin she can’t satisfy her boss or her family. She feels guilty and inadequate. She worries about money, but sheis notliving in poverty. 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Once, Lenin’s wife warned Baranskaya’s mother to flee because i"t nekied revolution and cataet with mother's milk,” - Pegasus Men's Running Shoe Families First: Baranskaya becomes mightily irritated if anyone suggests that Russian women might benefit from a feminist movement. “I am not a feminist,” she said sharply, playing gently with a newly rescued stray kitten. “In the West they read this story [of Olga] and think I’m a feminist. I am not. “I’m a conservative. Women have an importantduty — to build a home, a family and bring up good, honest people. This is enormously important work. For the majority of women, the family should comefirst.” Baranskaya says women should be free to make choices and that they should find thelife thatsatisfies them, not thelife society necessarily expects of them, But those who have children should stay at home with them, shesays. Many Westerners might call this a feminist viewpoint. Baranskaya doesnot. “Olga felt torn to pieces by so many demands,’’ Baranskaya said. “A woman can't be a cook, housekeeper, scientific worker and mistress as well. Her nerves and hertears can be explained by this.” Nowshe is at work writing an extraordinary family chronicle. Her parents were both revolutionaries, who suffered imprisonmentand exile under the czar and underthe Bolsheviks — they were Mensheviks, who wanted to over- bring up alone. aS : f 1.774083 Pad «A et ee et meh009 04 smni4a7a077 Cader Cy +908 Hove Mais Bnet AB OO enn ee 015060087 a ants ara MEMORIAL DAY HOURS: 9AM - GPM MALL HOURS MAY VARY |
