Yes, life in the East was less stressful. "East German women suffered from the notorious double burden of formal employment and housework.", except work was qui

Yes, life in the East was less stressful. "East German women suffered from the notorious double burden of formal employment and housework.", except work was quite a bit less demanding than you'd think. "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us". This is the foundation of the lack of stress in the Soviet block. It eventually led to the utter economic crash of the system. Yes, the current generations are sucked dry at work compared with their parents and grandparents. What do you expect when the supply of labor explodes 10x from 500M western males to 7B males and females worldwide, thank to globalization, feminism and demographic explosion? Throw in open borders immigration in the West and post-communist depression in the East for good measure. The article fails to account any of this. Instead, it engages in nonsensical drivel about "patriarchy".