 It's hard to imagine that women's rights may actually be in a worse situation now than during communism. But it seems Poland has a history of women not getting the credit they deserve.
Lech Walesa leapt over the shipyard fence to take command of the 1980 strike and went on to became president and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Guests:
Anna Walentynowicz, crane driver and grandmother at the time, started the strike. She tells Jenni that she was asked to take over solidarity, but refused, though now she feels she made a mistake.
Malgorzata Tarasiewicz is the director of the Network of East West Women and a former chair of Amnesty in Poland. She used to be a member of the underground resistance to communism and remembers the excitement of the strikes in 1980 that led to the founding of Solidarity.
Professor Jadwiga Staniszkis, sociologist and former solidarity member. |
