German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and its ally party, the Christian Social Union, cruised to victory for the fourth time in Sunday’s election, making her the longest-standing female head of state to date. Despite Merkel’s win, only 31 percent of those elected to Germany’s parliament, known as the Bundestag, were women. And fewer than four percent of CEOs in the country are women, according to European Union statistics. West Germany prided itself on a patriarchal social structure, she said, while socialism in East Germany required both men and women to work. West German mothers traditionally “feel they are not good mothers if they put their children in early care,” she added.

Source: Huffington Post September 25, 2017 08:26 UTC