League of Polish Women

Liga Kobiet Polskich (League of Polish Women, LPW) was a state women's organization in Communist Poland, founded in 1945.[1]

It was a state organization and a branch of the Communist Party, the Polish United Workers' Party. It succeeded a Pre-war organisation founded in 1913 with a similar name, called the Liga Kobiet Polskich (Polish Women's League). It was founded when Communism took over Poland in 1945.

Its purpose was to mobilise women in the political ideology of the state, as well as to enforce the party's policy within gender roles and women's rights. It played an important role in the life of women in the state during its existence. The policy of women's rights was progressive, and full legal gender equality was introduced.

In 1989, it was dissolved and transformed into a new organisation under the name Democratic Union of Women (LK). [2]

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1. ^ Padraic Kenney. “The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland.” The American Historical Review, vol. 104, no. 2, 1999, pp. 399–425. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2650371. Accessed 11 Dec. 2022.
2. ^ Janet K. Boles, Diane Long Hoevele Historical Dictionary of Feminism

* Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe