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Harassment of women does not end with such sexual and visual assaults; the average woman's day is filled with sexual discrimination both at home and at work. With this pervasive chauvinism in Hungarian society, one would hope that a strong feminist movement would be forming in Hungary. No such luck. Instead, conditions just continue to deteriorate for millions of Hungarian women...
EVEN though more than 80 percent of Hungarian women work, they tend to hold inferior jobs and receive lower wages than men. In blue-collar fields women are discouraged from learning how to handle complex technical machinery; they are considered too fragile, both physically and mentally, to hold these taxing positions...
When angry Hungarian taxi drivers and truckers blocked roads after a gasoline price rise of 65%, the government backed off: the increase was halved, and officials agreed to consult with unions and other parties on price hikes. Similar protests have erupted in Bulgaria, where electricity is rationed as much as 12 hours a day and store shelves are barer than they were before the collapse of communism. There are even long lines for candles. Two weeks ago, the government announced a 100-day crash program aimed at reviving the crippled economy; the scheme includes some price liberalization and partial convertibility...
What is the optimal balance? Murdoch says he has no target in mind. But even in Eastern Europe, where he invested "a tiny $4 million" in two Hungarian publications and is making a profit, he will pursue print ventures only if he can find partners. "Nothing on our own," he vows. "You don't get in in a big way, because there is no money there and the situation is totally competitive." The ideal newspaper investment, he says, is "the security of a monopoly." He has the same goal in television. Having attained it after a fashion in Britain...
Women like these remain exceptions in the East. The number of women in the Hungarian and Polish parliaments is minuscule. In East Germany only 20.5% of the Volkskammer were women. Eventually, some striving female politicians, like Hungarian Klara Ungarn, 32, a cheerful and dynamic leader of the small Federation of Young Democrats, may rise higher, but for now their activism is their greatest claim to power. Ungarn's party holds only 21 seats in the parliament, but she is confident its influence is growing. "We will control the government in 10 years," she says, "but not before." With rare wisdom...