The Second Congress of Polish Women wrapped up in Warsaw on Saturday.

The last day’s sessions were devoted to the economic situation in Poland and the European Union as well as the participation of women in the country’s economic life.

According to the research commissioned by the Warsaw Stock Exchange, women in Poland are better educated than men. But men, however, occupy the highest managerial structures of many companies.

Women gathered in Warsaw’s Congress Hall also discuss the country’s education system and health policy as well

A separate session dedicated to Izabela Jaruga – Nowacka, an MEP from the Democratic Left Alliance SLD and the country’s first plenipotentiary for equal status of women and men who died in the tragic crash of the presidential plane in Smolensk on April 10.

The First Congress of Polish Women took place last June to mark the twentieth anniversary of the first partially free elections leading to the democratic transformation of Poland. (di)

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