East Germans hold strong egalitarian views

 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 Ex-East Germans Retain Strong Egalitarian Views on Gender Roles People from the former East Germany are 28 percentage points more likely than former West Germans to believe that it's good for children to have working mothers, and 22 percentage points more likely to disagree that wives should stay home, say Stefan Bauernschuster and Helmut Rainer of the University of Munich. The findings show that decades after reunification, socialism-inspired attitudes about sex roles strongly persist among former East Germans and that the gap in egalitarian beliefs between East and West has only widened, the researchers say. #genderroles #genderissues #socialresearch #communism Source: Political regimes and the family: how sex-role attitudes continue to differ in reunified Germany