UN: Sexist attitudes in E. Europe GENEVA (AP) - Women in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe face increasing discrimination as a "thin veneer of equality" imposed under communism disappears, the United Nations said Wednesday. Decades of communist rule ultimately failed to dislodge traditional sexist attitudes, UNICEF said in its "Women in Transition" report. But it did bring improvements such as better education for women, good health care, high employment and state-funded child care, the organization said. During communist rule, women were poorly represented at the highest levels of the region's communist parties and enterprises, the report noted. And women still hold little political power now. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561273237-ffa>
