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ABSTRACT
The article considers the situation of women in a single Hungarian collective farm - the Red Flag collective farm - in the mid-1970s on the basis of materials collected and interviews made at the time. It considers their work situation, their role in management, their contribution to the cooperative's leadership, and the impact of Hungary's new woman policy of the 1970s. Providing employment for women was a central goal of the farm leadership, but women were concentrated in less skilled jobs and 'female' professions. A few made it to middle management positions, but none got to the top, although they were better represented in party positions. Their contribution to household farming was was determining yet difficult to quantify.
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Notes
1. For the history of collectivization in Hungary, see Varga (Citation2021) and Swain (Citation1985). For women in Hungary’s socialist agriculture, see Asztalos Morell (Citation1999).
2. For a discussion of the Red Flag’s personnel manager who carried out such tasks, see Swain (Citation2013).
3. See Asztalos Morell (Citation1999, 336 & 354). She lists MÜM 4/1962 IV. 5; MÜM 4/1966 X.21 and EÜM 6/1982 VI.12 in particular.
4. The report of the Central Committee session can be found on pp. 164–210 of https://adatbazisokonline.hu/pdfview2?file=static/documents/mszmp_mdp/HU_MNL_OL_M-KS_288_04_01040-01050.pdf#search=&page=1 (last accessed 10 April 2021).
5. The figure is repeated in Kulcsár and Lengyel (Citation1979, 72).
6. A quotation from Zsuzsa Orolin Kovácsné in an unpublished paper by Rózsa Kulcsár, cited by Corrin (Citation1994, 63).
7. These appear to be Kulcsár’s figures.
8. For a detailed organization, chart see Swain (Citation2013, 615–617).
9. See Hann (Citation1980, 132–133). Hann’s account focuses on the much larger crisis in the cooperative leadership at that time, to which the report of the chair of the women’s committee was of marginal significance.