Pick+three+revolutions+(Russian,+Chinese,+Cuban,+Iranian)+and+compare+their+effects+on+the+roles+of+women

Thesis: Women in Russia, China, and Iran all played huge roles during revolutions as well as before revolutions. Many times, men will look upon women to take care of the household as he is out in battle or work, and so they did in these countries.
 * Revolutions and war:
 * during the October Revolution in Russia, over 70,000 women took arms and joined the Red Army, but they were not forced to
 * as well in China, during Chiang Kai-shek's [|revolution]
 * women were soldiers, and played a bigger rule as being spies behind the line of the Nationalist army.
 * [|Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini]called upon women to send their sons and husbands to war
 * took jobs in males' places




 * Results:
 * 1918, equalized women's equality in Russia by reforming laws such as the [|Code of Marriage, the Family, and Guardianship]
 * 1949, the People's Republic of China abolished the feudal system in which held women in bondage
 * made them equal in political, economic, social, educational, and cultural life
 * women in Iran gained more jobs as roles began to open up in government and universities
 * outnumber men at universities

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