In discussions about women in post-communist East and Central Europe, we have heard and also expressed many doubts about the possibility of feminism coming to life in the region. Although there are clear, identifiable issues of inequality such as those in the labor market and employment, signs of the feminization of poverty, expressions of outspoken male sexism, and limitations of rigidly patriarchal patterns of man-women relationships, women do not seem to identify them as problems. What makes them unable to do so may be the non-existence of a commonly perceived and shared social identity as women.
