Abstract
Poland is a country with a population of almost 40 million and located in Central Europe. It became part of the democratic world over 20 years ago and a member of the European Union in 2004. Therefore, the development of civic society in Poland is still an ongoing process and many institutions that have existed in Western and Northern Europe for many decades are relatively new to Polish society. The same applies to social movements focused on gender relations, which appeared in Poland in the 1990s. One implication of this social fact is the lack of sufficient focus on gender issues in many aspects of social life. Ranked 43rd globally in the World Economic Forum’s gender gap report (http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/rankings2010.pdf), Poland appears to be a country dealing with many gender inequalities. Apart from highly gender-segregated employment, deep wage differentials, high levels of men’s violence against women, and low representation of women in the Polish Parliament, Poland is also a country with one of the most restrictive antiabortion laws in the whole European Union (Ignaciuk 2007).
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