Model Paper 5 — Social Studies STD 9 — Question

After industrialisation expanded in Russia women were employed in large numbers in most of the factories. In 1914 women composed 31 % of the labour force in Russia. They were not paid equally and the working conditions were poor. Women play their active role in the revolution of 1917. Some of them staged a demonstration and led marches from the front. Under Soviet rule women equally participated in economic progress and development.