A strong alliance of women and peace developed around the movement for nuclear disarmament (Frauenfriedens-bewegung)-, another important alliance was forged around the decriminalization of homosexuality.9 In the German Democratic Republic (former East Germany, GDR), the political scenario was a different one: the State formally supported women in the workplace and provided childcare as well as economic incentives, maternity leave and other provisions supporting pregnant women/mothers.10 While this did not change preconceived notions about motherhood and childcare being a primarily female task." Under German law, abortion is a criminal offense but is not punished if the pregnant woman accepts counselling prior to the abortion procedure and within the first trimester, cf. In the GDR ‘model’, an authoritarian productivist regime, women's employment was mandatory, as was the creche for very young children, the labour force participation rate, at 91 per cent in 1989, was the highest in the world. Bundesministerium fur Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugendliche [Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth] 2015, p. 21.