Polish women are increasingly becoming the main family breadwinners as more and more of them are earning more than their husbands.

While women in Poland still earn, on average, 23 percent less than men, they are quickly catching up as they take up higher posts, especially in business, and their incomes rise.

In 40 percent of Polish families women earn more than men and the number has increased by 30 percent in just a decade, shows the Central Statistical Office.

“The fact that there is a growing number of women who earn more than men results from a cultural revolution which Poland underwent in the past years,” Urszula Sztanderska from the University of Warsaw told the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily.

Since the 1990s the number of women who are main family breadwinners has gone up by 1.1 million to over 5.1 million at the end of 2010. (mg)