But several decades after reunification, women from East Germany still behave according to the more egalitarian gender norms they grew up with, even after many years of exposure to West German ...

it is often East German women who hold prime jobs. Women occupied around 50 percent of the total senior positions held by East Germans – significantly more than the portion of senior positions ...

Gender inequality was seemingly enshrined into Germany's reunification treaty, leaving divorced women from the former ... to perceived deficiencies in East German instruction, further diminishing ...

Merkel grew up in the town of Templin, 70km north of the East German capital Berlin. Newspaper Bild published the photo under the headline: "This young woman in the uniform is our Chancellor today." ...

A report by the German Institute for Economic ... a third in 2018 (see left-hand chart). More women across Germany are working part-time. Second, east-west differences still exist.