It's not really useful to single out Eastern Europe. The problem is everywhere; its manifestations are just different. Eastern Europe for example has much less

It's not really useful to single out Eastern Europe. The problem is everywhere; its manifestations are just different. Eastern Europe for example has much less of a glass ceiling problem but gender roles are stricter and but racism and homophobia are orders of magnitude worse. In the Dutch workplace (where I'm from) homophobia is for example much less of an issue; but racism is still pretty ingrained and while there are less strict divisions in gender roles but the glass ceiling for women is much stronger.