Over 70% of women to be financially independent in Poland

Financial independence is felt by 71 percent of Polish women, and 40 percent of them have their own savings. Most of the ladies know exactly what they want to spend the money they have saved, according to a study conducted for Credit Agricole.

The study ‘Polish women and finances’ by Credit Agricole was conducted together with the National Research Panel Ariadna. It was supposed to examine women's attitudes to money, buying, saving, and managing the household budget one year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

It shows that nearly half (48 percent) of Polish women have a budget shared with a partner and all expenses are financed from it. 

"23 percent of women, apart from the common budget, also have their own funds, from which they finance their own needs. In 52 percent of cases, it is women who supervise the home budget, and in 33 percent they do it together with a partner," the report reads.

"It turns out that money in as many as 90 percent of households is not a taboo subject and that the vast majority of Poles do not argue about money (78 percent)," we read further.

According to Ewa Deperas-Jarczewska from Credit Agricole, the common thesis that women keep money in the family is only partially true.

"Yes, this is the case in more than half of the families, but in as many as 33 percent of families, partners equally share these responsibilities. A situation in which a partner is a home accountant occurs only in one in twenty families. The situation is different when you need to take a loan – in over 50 percent of households the partners make such a decision jointly, and in 36 percent – women decide," she pointed out.

(PAP)