News

Meet the winners of the inaugural RównoWaga Employer Awards (Polish: ‘RównoWaga. Prokobieca Firma Roku’), organised by the Kulczyk Foundation, the Kongres Kobiet Association and the Polish Confederation Lewiatan. It’s the first competition for Polish employers in which women’s equality in the workplace is addressed comprehensively. The announcement of the results and the award ceremony took place during the European Forum for New Ideas.

At a time when political parties are vying for voters’ support, when the general public and the media are scrutinising party manifestos, individuals and organisations affiliated with the Okresowa Koalicja [Period Coalition], an organisation working to end period poverty, calls for the government to support the first ever bill in Poland that would make menstrual pads available for free in every school.

Menstrual leave and employer-financed psychotherapy are only some of the solutions offered by employers as part of their gender equality policies. Ninety-nine admissions in the competition organised by the Kulczyk Foundation, Kongres Kobiet (Congress of Women) and Polish Confederation Lewiatan came up with a plethora of interesting ideas.

Although 70% of Polish women consider menopause an important time in a woman’s life, as many as 93% of respondents are unable to define it correctly, according to a report commissioned by the Kulczyk Foundation and presented on 2 September by Dominika Kulczyk at the Congress of Women in Poznań. The study is the first of its kind in Poland.