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Eastern Europe women face setbacks after reform
In Poland and across Eastern Europe women report cuts to subsidies and childcare, tighter abortion rules, and resurging traditional attitudes after the end of communist rule. The article notes fewer sick days for mothers in unified Germany, hospital delays for abortions, and rising violence against women, while some foresee longer term gains from economic reform.
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Warsaw
Poland
Lech Walesa
Walesa
Europe
Jolanta Plakwicz
Eastern Europe
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Germany
Hungary
Johanna Kurz
Center For Women’s Studies
The
Free University In
Berlin
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