{"id":117641,"date":"2023-10-11T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/role-of-women-in-society-at-stake-in-polish-election\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T04:45:08","slug":"role-of-women-in-society-at-stake-in-polish-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/role-of-women-in-society-at-stake-in-polish-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of women in society at stake in Polish election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117641\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nIn 2021, a young woman came to a hospital in eastern Poland to get an abortion: she was suffering from severe mental distress because the fetus she was carrying had the lethal defect anencephaly. The doctors refused her the procedure for fear of breaking the law. The case of Agata, whose surname is not publicly known, exemplifies what Poland&#8217;s liberal opposition sees as an erosion of women&#8217;s rights during the eight-year rule of the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. Agata later obtained an abortion elsewhere, according to activists who helped her, but her plight resonates with many ahead of Sunday&#8217;s election in which women&#8217;s rights have emerged as a key campaign issue.<\/p>\n<p>With the number of undecided female voters twice as high as men in most age groups, according to a Batory Foundation report, sociologists say the opposition&#8217;s success in galvanising them could tip the scales. &#8220;PiS doesn&#8217;t respect women,&#8221; Magdalena Bojko, a 36-year-old office worker, said during an opposition rally this month. Asked what she hoped PiS&#8217; main rival, Civic Coalition (KO), might do if it wins, she said: &#8220;Guarantee we can bear children in dignity, have access to IVF.&#8221; PiS says it aims to boost fertility rates and support families, while pushing back against liberal values that clash with Poland&#8217;s Catholic heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Since winning power in 2015, it has ended state funding for IVF and enforced a prescription requirement for emergency contraception, as well as launching a universal child benefit and cash incentives for women to have at least four children. It says it opposes abortion but argues the 2021 ban, which makes an exception for terminations only in the case of rape, incest or a threat to the woman&#8217;s health, is a result of a Constitutional Tribunal ruling it had no power over. Its rivals say the court is politicised, which PiS denies.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show PiS is likely to win but its support has waned, in part because of its record on women&#8217;s rights and the rule of law. Some surveys show the mainstream opposition could form a majority government even if PiS is in first place. &#8220;Whose votes should we be fighting for? &#8230; Women in their 30s and 40s. Those who are disheartened about politics in general but increasingly worried about their own status,&#8221; a senior KO official told Reuters. Political scientists say massive protests that swept through Poland over the abortion ban in recent years may motivate some female voters to support the opposition, but may also have convinced others their voice doesn&#8217;t count. &#8220;This young generation in particular has been severely psychologically damaged, absolutely disregarded, ridiculed, sometimes humiliated,&#8221; said Anna Materska-Sosnowska from Warsaw University.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/role-women-society-stake-polish-election-2023-10-10\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/role-women-society-stake-polish-election-2023-10-10\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/117857\/\">Role of women in society at stake in Polish election<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,11789,11790],"class_list":["post-117641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-pole-women","tag-polish-election"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}