LIKE many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and motherhood.
The mother of two was able to preside over a large state-owned farm in the northeastern village of Banzkow because childcare was widely available.Contrast that with Claudia Huth, a mother of five, who grew up in capitalist West German y.Huth quit her job as a bank clerk when she was pregnant with her first child and led a life as a traditional housewife in the village of Egelsbach in Hesse, raising the kids and tending to her husband, who worked as a chemist.
By contrast, Leo said, women in the West didn't need to work because they were 'spoiled by the Marshall Plan' — the United States' generous reconstruction plan that poured billions of dollars into West Germany and other European countries after the war.
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