Polish women less professionally active than other European women
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Polish women are not as professionally active as other European women, according to the data of the Lewiatan Confederation, described by Martyna Maciuch. In 2020, the employment rate for women in Poland was 67.9 percent while the average in the European Union was 71.9 percent.
One of the reasons is ... a difficult economic situation. Why does it not encourage women to take up employment, but, paradoxically, it increases unemployment? Well, because women, the report shows, often face wage inequality and earn less when doing the same job as men. So they naturally take up another job – taking care of children in their home.
The report also takes into account other factors that speak in favor of a woman staying at home, such as the lack of an active network of nurseries or, finally, the patriarchal model of society.
Social transfers also play a role. According to the data from the report, the moment of negative deviation of the activity index among women with lower education from the average came in 2016. It was then that the 500 plus program was launched.
