Women's rights in the Soviet Union

300px|thumbnail|right|A veil-burning ceremony in Andijan, Uzbekistan, on Women's Day (now known as [[International Women's Day), 8 March 1927.]]

thumb| - "Women, Go into the Cooperative" (1918) thumb|Zhenotdel meeting in Amur Region, 1920 thumb|Kasimov Zhenotdel, 1925 thumb|Chuvash Autonomous Oblast Zhenotdel members, 1925 The Zhenotdel (, ), the women's department of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was the section of the Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s. It gave women in the Russian Revolution new opportunities until it was dissolved in 1930.

social group in World War II

The zhenskie sovety (shortened to zhensovety) were women's councils set up in localities of the Soviet Union after 1958. They were described as "descendants of the Zhenotdel but enjoy less scope and autonomy than did their namesake".