Posłanki na Sejm PRL II kadencji (1957–1961). Cechy socjopolityczne i aktywność poselska

Abstract

The author focuses on analysing socio-political characteristics and trends in the parliamentary activity of female MPs serving in the Polish People’s Republic Sejm of the second mandate (1957–1961). On the one hand, her research aims at characterising those MPs taking into account such criteria as age, education, profession, political orientation as well as membership in political groups and circles. The other aspect of the research concerns the areas of their activity in selected parliamentary committees, the parliamentary questions they submitted and the subjects raised by them in parliamentary speeches. The author seeks, if only partially, to fill the gap in most recent studies of women’s history in the period of the Polish People’s Republic (PPR). In terms of methodology, critical content analysis is used. The source base is press bulletins, stenographic transcripts of Sejm sittings and archive documents.