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Iga named one of world’s 100 most influential people by TIME magazine

Świątek who is the current WTA ranking leader and a three-time Grand Slam Champion is the first Polish athlete to be featured in the prestigious list. TIME

Świątek who is the current WTA ranking leader and a three-time Grand Slam Champion is the first Polish athlete to be featured in the prestigious list.

PM announces business programme for women

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, on Wednesday announced a broad-scale financial support programme for women starting up businesses.

Nearly half of Poles believe women face discrimination

Close to 50 percent of Poles believe women are discriminated against in public and private life in Poland, a new opinion poll has found.

More women doing physical jobs in Poland owing to Ukraine war

Increasing numbers of women have jobs involving manual labour in Poland owing to the influx of refugees from Ukraine, an employment agency has told PAP.

“Hello, hello. This is Radio Majdanek. Good morning ladies.” How an imaginary radio station helped women endure horrors of WWII death camp

Conceived 80 years ago this week, the fictitious radio station at Majdanek informed fellow prisoners about the latest whippings by SS guards or who had died of typhus, but also included radio theatre and education programmes aimed to raise morale and bolster resistance.

Educated women in Poland still earn less than their male peers

The high level of education of women in Poland does not translate evenly into their salaries in relation to men, Polish Economic Institute (PIE) expert told PAP.

Ukrainian women doing well on Polish job market says agency official

Most Ukrainian women who fled the war in their country have found jobs in Poland, a deputy president of the Polish Development Fund (PFR) has said.

Parliamentary ethics committee reprimands ruling party leader

Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Law and Justice (PiS), Poland’s governing party, has been reprimanded by the parliamentary ethics committee for critical comments he made about women who "hit the bottle."

Three Polish women detained as suspected members of Italian mafia

Three Polish women have been detained in Poland on suspicion of collaborating with the 'Ndrangheta, the "most powerful criminal organisation in Italy."

Baby heart professor awarded prestigious international distinction for her outstanding work

Warsaw-based Professor Marzena Dębska, who has carried out over 140 operations on babies in the womb diagnosed with complex heart defects, received the 2022 Research “for her inspiring work on fetal cardiac interventions” from the Holm Schneider Foundation for Prenatal Therapy in Erlangen, Germany.

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Tale of thwarted love which inspired Mickiewicz’s greatest works to be turned into epic new film

Titled Uncertainty, the ambitious mega-production promises an intimate portrayal of the young Mickiewicz during a turbulent love affair, which would sow seeds of inspiration, ultimately germinating in works that would go on to become the cornerstone of Poland's literary heritage.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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