East Germany’s exodus of women fuels growing political radicalisation • FRANCE 24 English

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of industry in the former East Germany, many women have left the region and never returned. Men are now over-represented, with a surplus of up to 25 percent in some municipalities. This shortage of women has created a vicious cycle: a rapidly ageing population, a loss of social cohesion and a decline in the attractiveness of eastern cities. The gender imbalance is also fuelling political radicalisation, which Germany’s far-right AfD party is taking advantage of. FRANCE 24’s Anne Mailliet, Willy Mahler, Nick Holdsworth and Caroline du Bled report.
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47 comments
  1. Yes, when people are freed from socialist authoritarianism they FLEE, and they will never return.
    They despise you.

  2. Ha! I went to Germany and Czechoslovakia after the wall came down. Back then the men all left to find a job with a decent wage. The only men left were the few that were married.

  3. How can you say there is an East Germany???
    On October 3, 1990, East and West Germany were reunified, ending the division of Germany. The former East Germany dissolved itself and its states joined the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), which was previously West Germany.

  4. To say “women are leaving the area for better education and job opportunities” is like saying ‘women have no use in the home.’ Daft talk about intentional setup for failure elsewhere

  5. Yeah let's live like in the citys, next social project, all the homeless that you created by inviting a couople of million without any infrastructure…

    france, you know nothing. time to show you who's the boss in EU again.

  6. I'm not sure that teaching women how to 'resist' is going to be helpful…wouldn't that just cause more division and make them more likely to want to leave so they can be around people with similar ideas and less controversy and conflict?

  7. it makes sense to me now why around 60% women will be single and childless by the year 2030 at the earliest globally.

  8. so are none of the men leaving? and what information supports that men are fueling the change in politics? this report seems more like you had an idea and went in search of information to support what you already believed.

  9. East Germans are similar to the Russian counterpart typically more barbaric racist and xenophobic no wonder they want to leave. Not all women want to be slaves to a man especially a nutty one

  10. Claudia needs to leave I thought she was a middle aged woman in her 50’s!!! She’s a year younger than me and look 25 years older😬

  11. Nothing is more dangerous than young men without jobs and without women. It’s not safe for the society as a whole and not safe for the women who remain. To me, in the US, this is represented by young men who cannot find girlfriends or wives due to economic and social changes. I see this as a problem for China as well as the one child policy generated millions more men than women. China, too, has a missing generation of women.

  12. Some years back, some young male AFD supporters were chatting online, one of them suggested that since women vote for leftist parties more often than men, maybe it would be good to restrict voting to men only for a while.

  13. It's not just women, anyone with common sense wouldn't want to stay in a desolated place with high poverty and unemployment rates and on top of that surrounded by low educated racist people.

  14. Women love cities. The amenities of a city replace the services provided by their parents when they were children. Restaurants to cook their food, people to fix anything broken, police to leep them safe, etc. All they need do is find a job and then their time can be spent socializing, drinking, etc.

  15. Some men in these comments: talk about women not as independent full people with hopes and dreams and ambitions but as cattle which is being stolen by "Turkish and Africans in WG".
    The same men: i don't understand why women are leaving, we are such nice guys!

  16. So what, they are hoping the government will force women to stay? Or mass import women?

  17. Talks about radicalization and then tries to sell the ”patriarchy” conspiracy theory. What a load of rubbish.

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