Solidarity legend among 100 women of the ‘Time’ weekly

Free trade union activist and legend of ‘Solidarity’ Anna Walentynowicz was recognized by the American weekly ‘Time’ as one of the 100 women who defined the last century. Walentynowicz, who died in the Smoleńsk catastrophe, was indicated as the most important woman of 1980.

Portraits of 100 women from the last century is a project of the American magazine, which is to draw attention to influential women who often remained in the shadow of men. The newspaper reminds that it originally broadcast the title "Man of the Year" in 1999 changed to "Person of the Year".

The magazine describes Walentynowicz as the mother of Polish independence. It reminds her biography and the fact that her dismissal from the Gdańsk Shipyard (then Lenin Shipyard) was the cause of strikes.

Among the 100 women of Time magazine, which were, among others, Coco Chanel, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Obama and Angela Merkel.

(PAP)