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European Sociological Review Advance Access published online on February 18, 2008
European Sociological Review, doi:10.1093/esr/jcn007
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Finding Their Way? Female Employment Patterns in West Germany, East Germany, and Poland

Anna Matysiak

Anna Matysiak, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Al. Niepodleglosci 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland. Email: amatys{at}sgh.waw.pl

Stephanie Steinmetz

Stephanie Steinmetz (to whom correspondence should be addressed), Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, A5, 6, 68159 Mannheim, Germany. Email: Stephanie.Steinmetz{at}mzes.uni-mannheim.de.

The aim of this article is to examine how (i) children and (ii) the existence and potential earnings of husbands affect women's employment patterns in West Germany, East Germany, and Poland. In particular, it assesses whether employment patterns in East Germany and Poland resemble those exhibited in West Germany after the collapse of the socialist regime. Given the considerable changes to labour market and family policies experienced by post-socialist countries that have resulted in an increased conflict between family and work, this is an important area of research. In the post-socialist countries, we find differences in female employment patterns compared to West Germany, expressed in the lower magnitude of child and husband effects. We argue that women in Poland and East Germany are going their own way, rejecting the ‘male breadwinner’ model, and only partly adjusting their behaviour to changing structural conditions.

Manuscript received: November 1, 2006.


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