#OutstandingPLWomen: Polish suffragists, the first female Members of the Polish Parliament.
Polish women were among Europe’s first to gain electoral rights. They came from various backgrounds, differed in education, experience and political views, but shared one goal - to win equal rights for women and end their banishment to the margins of public life.
28
04.2021
History, Resources
#OutstandingPLWomen: Maria Siemionow
A distinguished surgical pioneer who performed the first full face transplant in the United State.
03
05.2021
History, Resources
#OutstandingPLWomen: Wanda Rutkiewicz
The first woman to reach the summit of the most dangerous mountain in the world - K2. The first European woman to conquer Mount Everest. One of the greatest climbers in history.
13
05.2021
History, Resources
#OutstandingPLWomen: Olga Tokarczuk
An outstanding prose writer and essayist. Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature and The 2018 Man Booker International Prize for the novel Flights. A lover of nature, animals and other people.
23
04.2021
Literature, Resources
#OutstandingPLWomen: Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Physicist and chemist. The first and only woman in the world to receive the Nobel Prize twice, as well as the only scientist honored in two different fields of the natural sciences.
21
04.2021
History, Resources
#OutstandingPLWomen: Olga Boznańska
A prize-winning artist recognised by the Berlin magazine Bazaar as one of the 12 best painters in Europe.
15
04.2021
Resources, Visual arts
#OutstandingPLWomen: Anna Walentynowicz
A legendary figure of ‘Solidarity’ – the socio-political movement that initiated the fall of communism in Europe. One of the 100 women who defined the last century, according to the American newsweekly Time.
10
04.2021
History, Resources
#OutstandingPLWomen: Wisława Szymborska
The ninth woman in the world and the first Polish woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The inventor of new literary genres based on humour, irony and grotesque.
07
04.2021
Literature, Resources
#OutstandingPLWomen: Krystyna Chojnowska – Liskiewicz
The first woman to sail around the world solo. Sailor, traveller, and naval architect. Often referred to as ‘the first lady of the oceans’.
28
03.2021
History, Resources