Women in Germany's east earn close to what men do. Can we thank socialism for that?

And it's not that East Germany was a feminist utopia. Women there still did most of the housework, and on average, still earned less than men. “The politicians didn't care that much about equality. They needed women to work in industry, in the economy and so they encouraged them,” Alperstaedt says.
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