Instead of flowers on Women’s Day, UW assures female candidates 30% list

On the occasion of International Women’s Day yesterday, Freedom Union (UW) accepted a resolution according to which women will have an assured minimum 30% of places on its election lists to the Sejm and Senate. UW wanted to introduce this regulation to the electoral law, but the proposal was not accepted by Solidarity Election Action (AWS). UW politicians also announced a campaign to make regulations concerning maternity leave more flexible. According to UW, women should have the right to decide whether to take advantage of full time maternity leave or return to work after 16 weeks. In that case the father of a child could use the rest of the maternity leave. The Sejm has already accepted the proposal, but the Senate, however, rejected it. Now the issue of maternity leave will return to the lower chamber..(Gazeta Wyborcza, p.7) A.D.