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By the year1950, three in four Soviet Doctors were women. This is in part, due to girls being told that they must be equal to a man throughout their childhood. Women’s education was a top priority for areas under Soviet control. There were widespread literacy programs to combat the illiteracy of the millions of Soviet citizens, with a special emphasis on women. However, a de-facto inequality still existed between men and women. Where women may have accounted for seventy-five percent of all physicians, the chief of medicine or residency would have most likely have been men.

 McKay, John P. __A History of Western Society__. 7th ed. New York City: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.