The female face of parliamentary elections. From the past to the present

https://doi.org/10.26485/SW/2018/25/3

Abstract

_{The article has a review character because it contains a summary list of womenʼs results achieved in the Sejm and Senate elections during the period of 1919–2015. Its aim is to recall women’s efforts to grant them electoral rights, the profiles of the first Polish parliamentarians and the way to increase the participation of female citizens in the exercise of power. The article also refers to the effects of the election quotas introduced by the Electoral Code. It also presents the results of the elections to the Sejm in 2015 in comparison to other countries, which together with Poland entered the path of political transformation.}