Women's Studies in Poland

Abstract

This report will briefly address the changes in higher education that occurred in Poland over the last ten years in terms of university structures and degree structures, the research policies and equal opportunity policies, and will subsequently focus on the history of women’s movement after 1989. It will finally present a case study of the institutionalization of Women’s Studies Center at the University of Lódz, one of the five major universities in Poland. The specific focus of this analysis will be a demonstration how conservative approaches to education in terms of the overall structure of the universities as well as the degree structure hinder the development of Women’s/Gender Studies in Poland.