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Protest against abortion, Gdansk

12/02/2020 GMT

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Gender is a fraught political issue in Poland and many women are feeling challenged

Gender is a fraught political issue in Poland and many women are feeling challenged.

Tim Samuels and Anna Holligan travel to Warsaw to find out what's on the minds of men and women. It's a time of political change in Poland. The recent general election saw the biggest turnout since 1989. Gender has become one of the most fraught political issues, with LGBT rights and so-called 'gender ideology' being held up by prominent politicians as threats to the Polish way of life. It has been a challenging time for many women, with a proposed tightening of abortion laws and many women's organisations under threat.
 
We go door to door with the social workers implementing Law and Justice's controversial 500+ policy that pulls women out of poverty while reinforcing traditional family values, we travel out of Warsaw to meet a paramilitary troop, and we look at the changing complexion of dating in a country where relations between men and women are subtly shifting.

Producer: Ant Adeane and  Barney Rowntree

(Photo: Protesters with banner that reads - Freedom - in Gdansk, Poland, 2018. Credit: Getty Images)

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And in Poland women, uncertain rather than challenging - some women will support the abortion law change.
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