Why might state socialism in the soviet union have been described as patriarchal?

The Soviet Union under Tsarist rule was a grim place for women to live. Society viewed women as vastly inferior to men, such that a woman’s status was below that of any adult male. Tsarist laws reflected this age-old perception and cultural mindset, whether decreeing that only men could have rights to owning property, or even explicitly permitting a husband to beat his wife. The small numbers of women in the workforce were also treated badly, suffering through long hours with low pay, appalling working conditions, and constant harassment from the male workers. There is no doubt that the overthrow of Tsarist rule and the introduction of Socialism in 1917 changed all this for women, giving them rights inconceivable to previous generations of Russians. The new government, fresh from the October Revolution, sought to level out the playing field between men and women, and attempted to do this using Marx and Engels’ prescriptions. However, as much as women’s lives had improved, notion...