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- Title
Work and Family in Women's Lives in the German Democratic Republic.
- Authors
Trappe, Heike
- Abstract
The article discusses issues related to work and family in women's lives in East Germany. This article addresses two questions. Firstly, how did women combine employment and family responsibilities in the former East Germany and what consequences did those strategies used by women of different generations have for their occupational careers. The author analyzed life histories of four birth cohorts of women born between 1929 and 1961 and living in East Germany in 1990. The data were from a retrospective study conducted in East Germany, the East German Life History Study, carried out by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, East Germany. Analyzing the influences of structural conditions on women's lives in the former East Germany proved to be productive in several ways. There is empirical evidence that many changes in women's lives were induced politically. The high labor force participation, even for women of the oldest cohort, shows this clearly. Almost all women who interrupted their employment for longer time periods while they had small children started working again and did not remain housewives.
- Subjects
GERMANY (East); WOMEN employees; FAMILY-work relationship; WOMEN'S employment; FAMILY relations; HOUSEWIVES
- Publication
Work & Occupations, 1996, Vol 23, Issue 4, p354
- ISSN
0730-8884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0730888496023004003