Dear Val,
Thank you very much - your site is very interesting! By the way, after the reunification of Germany in 1990, we West German women noticed that the girls and women in the former GDR (East Germany) had studied and worked with much more self-evidence, equal rights and granted in so-called mens' jobs than it was usual (and sometimes possible) in the West German society (BRD). Because of that experences, later the world of work in Germany as a whole also was influenced positive for girls and women nowadays. Probably it is no coincidence that our first German female Chancellor of German history is a girl from the former GDR ;-)))
Have a nice weekend!
Ilse