Women and men married quite early, but they also divorced early, there was very high divorce rate [ in the East ], so women were extremely independent and not just part of a man's career, they had their own careers, they were very self-confident. Steffen Mau More Quotes by Steffen Mau More Quotes From Steffen Mau Many people experienced unemployment, very long periods of insecurity or even existential crisis and the result of that is that they developed a habit of' keeping and defending' and are not willing to accept more social change, populism falls on fertile ground, people are very much willing to say' they defend what we have, they defend our culture, they defend our borders,'. Steffen Mau top-news Three quarters of the lead positions in east Germany are occupied by people with a west German background. Steffen Mau top-news East German women are successful. Steffen Mau top-news Three of them are women. Steffen Mau top-news
