WARSAWFourteen months prior to EU enlargement East European women are looking westwards hoping membership will bring them more rights, women's organizations have said.Women, who enjoyed a large measure of equality and played active social roles in the former communist bloc, bore the brunt of the economic impact sparked by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989."Before the transition women had free abortion, almost everybody had a work place, and there was almost no unemployment," Basia Godlewska, a representative of the Polish women's information center OSKA, said."However, it was not a good s...
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