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Wrocław women blow socks off the Irish with their cheery sock designs

Joanna Zalech and Aleksandra Kiełdanowicz founded Irish Socksciety together after meeting in Ireland. Press materials

Produced in Poland and sold across Ireland, Joanna Zalech and Aleksandra Kiełdanowicz have now produced over 100,000 socks since starting their business just three years ago – and even the Irish PM wears them!

Warsaw artist’s head-turning portraits get artworld talking

Using oil on canvas, Ewa Juszkiewicz replicates the rich colours and textures of original portraits, extending this to the features she has added covering the women’s faces.

More women active in Poland's boardrooms - report

The percentage of women active on the management and supervisory boards of companies operating in Poland rose by 0.6 percent to 15.8 percent in 2019, according to a report by the Deloitte consulting and audit company.

The extraordinary tale of four women who 100 years ago threw off convention to travel the world

‘Pear Divers’ examines the lives of four women who were well ahead of their times.

Poznan City Council signs European Charter for Equality

The City Council of Poznan, western Poland, signed the European Charter for Gender Equality on Tuesday. The charter, launched in 2006, commits local and regional governments throughout Europe to using their powers to achieve greater equality for their people.

Breaking the glass ceiling: When it comes to science, Polish women are on the up

Poland has one of the best female-to-male ratios of scientists in the world.

Soaring high: Poland’s women ski jumpers make World Cup debut

Their appearance in the competition in Japan comes as a watershed moment in Polish ski-jumping history.

An arresting sight! Cops create calendar to raise money for cancer

The 2020 calendar called ‘Women to Women’ shows female officers from various branches of the police at work but also captures the more private side of their lives.

Warsaw hosts international conference for women in hi-tech sectors

The two-day Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit world congress, Europe's biggest event for women working in technology, started in Warsaw on Wednesday.

Women on the up in the Polish workplace finds new global report

With female unemployment falling, Poland is one of the world’s best countries for women employees says PwC.

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  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
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Poznań’s 19th century Pl. Kolegiacki returned to its former glory as part of movement to reclaim community spaces from ‘carpark hell’

Featuring fountains, greenery, information boards and outbreaks of modern art, the initiative has been hailed by Poznań mayor Jacek Jaśkowiak as a project for the masses, saying: “I am glad that we have managed to revitalize the square while respecting the historic character of this space,”

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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