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Mussolini's Reign In Racist Italy

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The major aspects affecting women under Mussolini’s reign in fascist Italy was the massive push for pro-natalist movements mainly under the guise of better healthcare, welfare benefits, and public awards given to women who exceeded the “quota” of five children per family. Mussolini needed a higher population to be able to institute a cheaper labor force and imperialist expansions. Mussolini’s major push for pregnancies was because he wanted to increase the Italian population by twenty million so that they would have enough workers to man the factories and also enough to man the frontlines in the military. To oversee the propagation of the Italians Mussolini instituted the L’Opera Nazionale per la Maternitá ed Infanzia, or ONMI: The National
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