This is a gross over-simplification. The gender pay gap in the USSR was larger than that of the US in the 1970s. In other words, the US had better pay equality than the USSR. And they managed to do that in a planned economy where all the wages were directly set by the government!
True, but it was just for propaganda reasons. It would be almost 20 years before the Soviets let another woman become an astronaut.
The difference is that the Soviets always saw women as equals unlike the US who still doesn’t
This is a gross over-simplification. The gender pay gap in the USSR was larger than that of the US in the 1970s. In other words, the US had better pay equality than the USSR. And they managed to do that in a planned economy where all the wages were directly set by the government!