Debbie Wagener (Chester) p.65-82
2004 Issue 3
Abstract
The article examines current trends in unemployment in the New States and examines the impact of highunemployment on east German women. With reference to east German women’s relationship to employment in the GDR it focuses on current attitudes to existing unemployment and the strategies they have implemented to resist it. It also reviews their attitudes towards the housewife role and towards combining work and family and summarises east German women’s achievements in resisting adaptation to a more Western biography.