Retro photos that clearly illustrate the difficult situation of women in different eras (17 photos)

There is much to be said about the status of women in society today, but it is certainly better than most periods in the past.





These women were arrested by the police just because they were wearing bathing suits with exposed legs, Chicago, 1922



The International Queen of Posture, 1957





USSR female snipers, 1945



Woman brutally executed for cheating on her husband, Iran, 1954



The faint of heart should not read, but the execution took place in the following stages: they covered them with earth until they were completely immobilized, then they stoned them to death, and then they buried them completely and trampled the grave with their feet.

A mother saves her children from attackers by swimming across a river during Operation Piranha, South Vietnam, 1966



The photo won the author the Pulitzer Prize, which he shared with the family after finding it later.

One of them is the bride, and the other is the groom's sister. The second leads the first to the river, where the bride will be doused according to the ritual, Udmurtia, 1930



A washbasin-massager that women used for their breasts, 1930



Filing an application for marriage registration, Tajikistan, 1970s



Girl photographer, Berlin, 1910



The women in the photo are prisoners, and the man is their guard, New Orleans, 1963



Red Light District, Amsterdam, 1968



Even a woman can fix a tank, England, 1940



Smallpox vaccination administered by a Health Department worker to nightclub dancers, New York City, 1947



Girl with arrow in leg arrested, Belgian Congo, 1908



Strip club employees wait to go on stage, Soho, London, 1968



An example of a newspaper ad from the past: phone sex, 90s