In one scholarly conception, the history of feminism in Poland can be divided into seven periods, beginning with 19th-century first-wave feminism. The first four early periods coincided with the foreign partitions of Poland, which resulted in an eclipse of a sovereign Poland for 123 years.
Kazimiera Szczuka is a Polish historian of literature, literary critic, feminist, journalist and television personality, known from the Polish edition of The Weakest Link.
Magdalena Środa is a Polish feminist politician and philosopher, extraordinary professor of ethics at the University of Warsaw, and a feminist author. She is also a columnist for the Gazeta Wyborcza. She was government's Plenipotentiary for the Equal Status of Women and Men in the cabinet of Marek Belka between August 16, 2004 and November 4, 2005.
Zuzanna Janin, is a Polish visual artist and former teenage actor. Janin lives and works in Warsaw and London. Janin has created sculpture, video, installation, photography and performatives. She used the names Zuzanna Baranowska (1990-1992) and from 1992 Zuzanna Janin. Her work was shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and A.I.R Gallery New York. She is included in Feminist Artists Data in Brooklyn Museum, NY.
Sylwia Chutnik is a Polish novelist, writer, feminist and social activist.
Tekla Teresa Łubieńska was a Polish playwright, poet and translator.
Karolina Wigura is a sociologist, historian of ideas and journalist. She is Member of the Board of Kultura Liberalna Foundation, which publishes Kultura Liberalna, one of Poland's leading weekly magazines. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Zentrum Liberale Moderne (LibMod), an assistant professor at Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Paulina Kuczalska-Reinschmit was a Polish social reformer and feminist activist, publisher and writer. She campaigned for women's right to vote in Poland, which was then partitioned between Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Wanda Hanna Nowicka is a Polish activist and politician, Member of Parliament of Poland during 7th (2011–2015) and 9th terms (2019–2023). She served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from 8 November 2011 to 11 November 2015.
Jolanta Maria Żyndul is a Polish historian, a specialist on modern Jewish history and Polish-Jewish relations in 19th and 20th century.
Agnieszka Taborska is a Polish writer, art historian, specialist in Surrealism, translator, and educator.
Maria Dulębianka was a Polish artist and activist, notable for promoting women’s suffrage and higher education.
Joanna Ida Sułkowska is a Polish physicist and chemist who specializes in biophysics and protein molecular biophysics and theory. She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Chemistry and the Center of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw.
Katarzyna Dominika Bratkowska is a Polish literary critic, feminist, and socialist activist.
Ewa Alicja Majewska is a Polish philosopher, political activist and an author. In the 1990s and early 2000s, she was involved in anarchist, anti-border, ecological and women's movements.
Solnica - personal name recorded in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1616 in Lesser Poland and Greater Poland regions. It belongs to the group of surnames motivated by lexicons related to salt mining. In January 2020, about 600 persons bearing the surname lived in Poland, mostly in Kielce, Warsaw, Siedlce, Krakow and Lodz.
The 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland, commonly called the Women's Strike, were anti-government demonstrations and protests in Poland that began on 22 October 2020, in reaction to a ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, mainly consisting of judges who were appointed by the ruling Law and Justice dominated United Right, which tightened the law on abortion in Poland. The ruling made almost all cases of abortion illegal, including those cases in which the foetus had a severe and permanent disability, or an incurable and life-threatening disease. All-Poland Women's Strike was charged by the authorities for having illegally organised the protests.
The All-Poland Women's Strike or Polish Women's Strike is a women's rights social movement in Poland, established in September 2016. It was set up in protest against the rejection by the Sejm of the Polish Parliament of the bill "Save Women", which was considered by the Sejm in parallel to the project "Stop Abortion". The movement was responsible for the organization of Black Monday, a protest action, involving various forms of strike, that took place simultaneously in 147 Polish cities, towns and villages.
The Consultative Council is a non-government representative body created in November 2020 by the All-Poland Women's Strike in the context of the October 2020 Polish protests. The Council incorporates public participation as a mechanism for participatory democracy.
Monika Stanisława Płatek is a Polish legal scholar, criminologist, and politician. She is a professor at the University of Warsaw, and her research focuses on penal systems, criminal and civil law, gender studies, and feminist jurisprudence. She has been a candidate for the Senate of Poland and the European Parliament.
