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GENDER DISCRIMINATION ON THE LABOUR MARKET IN POLAND

Summary
Although complex legislation on equal rights for women has come into force in the European Union, providing the legislation on equal rights for women does not automatically entail economic equality. As far as professional life is concerned, major differences are observed with reference to the situation of women and men, which is refl ected in the research indicating that women occupy worse position on the labour market. Women earn less, hold lower positions, receive professional training more seldom than men and have greater problems getting a job in Poland. In the article the following types of discrimination against women on the labour market in Poland were showed:
1. employment discrimination referring to the right to equal employment opportunities and equal criteria adopted while selecting the applicants;
2. professional discrimination referring to the right to choose one’s profession and employment as well as to take up a full-time job and to be provided with equal working conditions;
3. position discrimination referring to the right to get promotion;
4. discrimination as far as the access to training is concerned – referring to the right to have access to training;
5. pay discrimination referring to the right to receive one and the same wage or salary for a particular type of work carried out.