In her book Le Feminism. the French writer A. Michel raised the example of the then-USSR: The reason why the Soviet divorce rate was so high--one of every two marriages in large cities ended in divorce, one in three nationwide--was because women resorted to divorce to escape the pressures of home.
法國作家密歇爾的「女權主義」一書便舉當年的蘇聯為例：蘇聯離婚率之所以那麼高﹘﹘在大都市，兩對夫妻有一對離婚；在全國，三對有一對離婚﹘ ﹘是因為女性藉著離婚來解脫受於家庭的壓迫。