Wybory parlamentarne i wybory do rad narodowych w Polskiej Rzeczpospolitej Ludowej na łamach „Kobiety i Życia” (do 1989 roku)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the issues related to the parliamentary elections and elections for national councils in light of the “Kobieta i Życie”. About 570 editions of the magazine have been analysed for the purpose of this article. The analysis covers the editions from the following years: 1961, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1985 and 1988 when parlamentary elections as well as elections to National Councils were held. Although political issues were just a small part of all the material published in the pages of the magazine, election news articles are numerous enough to be divided into several types, e.g. informative or mentioning the problem of lov participation of women in public life.