Gender Equality in Poland

GENDER EQUALITY IN POLAND

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January, 2010 Antalya, TURKEY

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List of Pictures and Tables.…………………………………………………...……………ii Abbreviations……………………………………………………………………………...iii INTRODUCTION…...…………………………………………………………………….1 1. BRIEF HISTORY OF POLAND………………………………………………………..2 2. GENDER EQUALITY PIONEERS…...………………………………………………..2 3. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCES…...……………………………………..2 3.1 Religious Traditions……………………………...…………………...………..2 3.1.1 Toward Re-Familization………………………………………………….3 3.2 Education and Sexuality ……...………………………………………...……...4 3.2.1 Abortion…………………………………………………………………..4 3.2.2 Contraception…………………………………………………………….4 3.3 Communist Ideological Legacy………………………………………………..5 3.4 After EU Accession……………………………………………………...…….5 3.4.1 Political Parties and Parliament…………………………………………..7 4. CONCLUSIONS………………………………………………………………………...7 REFERENCES……………………………………………………………………………..9 APPENDIXES……………………………………………………………………………10

LIST OF PICTURES AND TABLES Page Picture 1 Picture 2 A statue of Jesus………………………………………………………………..3 Pope Benedict XVI and Polish President Lech Kaczynski…………………….6

Table 1 Table 2

The Global Gender Gap Index 2010 Rankings……………………………….10 Some Statistics According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2010………….11

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ABBREVIATIONS

CEE CoF DWFD EC ECJ EEC EFTA EU HIV MSs NATO OECD Rev. TEU TFEU USSR

the Central and Eastern Europe the Council of Europe the Department for Women, Family and Prevention of Discrimination the European Community the European Court of Justice the European Economic Community the European Free Trade Association the European Union Human Immunodeficiency Virus the Member States the North Atlantic Treaty Organization the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Reverend the Treaty on European Union the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union the Union of Soviet Socialist Rebuclics

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