Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Transconceptualisation of Gender Budgeting Ideas in the Polish Context

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Gender Budgeting in Europe

  • 713 Accesses

Abstract

This chapter refers to gender budgeting practices in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, with particular attention to Poland, in relation to their historical and cultural context and current political debates. The author discusses how the character and scope of the gender budgeting projects have altered—from simple analyses of the budgetary allocations for the burning problems indicated by inhabitants, through the studies of unpaid and care works, to gender and well-being research projects conducted recently. The two latest case studies from Poland are critically examined and conclusions as well as directions of future research are put forward as an inspiration to academics as well as practitioners in the region.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    I use the terms ‘well-being’, ‘standard of living’, and ‘quality of life’ interchangeably in this chapter, despite the semantic differences between them.

  2. 2.

    Polish bishops, following the addresses of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to the Roman Curia in December 2012, rejected the ‘ideology of gender’, as a ‘profound falsehood’ undermining the family and ‘denying people’s nature’ (Luxmoore 2014). These attitudes have their origins in ‘moral panic around sexual education in schools, LGBT rights’ and made a smokescreen to paedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church, having transnational rather than local character (Korolczuk 2014). Since Poland has a concordat signed, the position of the Catholic Church in the country and its influence on politics is very strong, especially since the conservative party, Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość), is in power.

  3. 3.

    Detailed methodology and a final report comprising collected data in the three areas, as well as empirical research findings along with recommendations formulated for Konin authorities by women inhabitants, are available online and can be utilised by other Polish municipal governments and non-governmental organisations (see Łapniewska 2015a; Frankowska 2016).

References

  • Addabbo, Tindara. 2008. Well-Being Gender Budgets: Italian Local Government Cases. CAP Paper No. 41. http://155.185.68.2/campusone/web_dep/CappPaper/Capp_p41.pdf. Accessed 10 Sep 2016.

  • Addabbo, Tindara, Diego Lanzi, and Antonella Picchio. 2010. Gender Budgets: A Capability Approach. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 11 (4): 479–501. https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2010.520900.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Akcja Konin. 2012. Obywatelska Strategia KONIN 2020. Projekt. Konin: Akcja Konin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bałandynowicz-Panfil, Katarzyna, and Urszula Opacka. 2005a. Gdańsk Gender Budget Initiative. E. Zofia Łapniewska and Trans. Adam Jagusiak. Gdańsk: The Network of East-West Women, NEWW-Polska.

    Google Scholar 

  • ———. 2005b. Gdańska Inicjatywa Budżetowania pod Kątem Płci: analiza gender budget. Gdańsk: Stowarzyszenie Współpracy Kobiet NEWW-Polska.

    Google Scholar 

  • BBC. 2016. Black Monday: Polish Women Strike Against Abortion Ban. BBC News, October 3. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37540139. Accessed 27 Feb 2016.

  • Cerwonka, Allaine. 2008. Traveling Feminist Thought: Difference and Transculturation in Central and Eastern European Feminism. Signs 33 (4): 809–832. https://doi.org/10.1086/528852.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Desperak, Izabela. 2014. Kobiety w budżecie. Raport z analizy budżetów miasta Łodzi z lat 2010–2014. Łódź: Fundacja Miejski Kolektyw.

    Google Scholar 

  • Duda-Gwiazda, Joanna. 2001. Szminka na sztandarze. Kobiety Solidarności 1980–1989. Rozmowy. Ed. Ewa Kondratowicz, 303–330. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sic!

    Google Scholar 

  • FP6. 2016. Sixth Framework Programme 2002–2006. Research & Innovation, European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/index_en.cfm. Accessed 10 Sep 2016.

  • Frankowska, Sylwia. 2016. Budżet wrażliwy na płeć—inicjatywa konińska. Raport zprojektu. Konin: Fundacja Pełnym Głosem.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ghodsee, Kristen. 2004. Feminism-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Cultural Feminism, and Women’s Nongovernmental Organizations in Postsocialist Eastern Europe. Signs 29 (3): 727–753.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • GRS. 2016. Gdańska Rada do spraw Seniorów. http://bip.gdansk.pl/prezydent-miasta/gdanskie-rady/Gdanska-Rada-ds-Seniorow,a,1520. Accessed 10 Sep 2016.

  • GUS. 2005. Budżet czasu ludności 1 VI 2003-31 V 2004. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny.

    Google Scholar 

  • ———. 2015. Budżet czasu ludności. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny.

    Google Scholar 

  • ———. 2016. Migracje wewnętrzne ludności. http://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/ludnosc/migracje-wewnetrzne-ludnosci/. Accessed 24 Feb 2017.

  • GUTW. 2016. Gdański Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku. http://gutw.ug.edu.pl. Accessed 9 Sep 2016.

  • Himmelweit, Susan. 2016. Childcare as an Investment in Infrastructure. In Economics and Public Policy: Reflections on the Work and Impact of Ailsa McKay, ed. Jim Campbell and Morag Gillespie, 83–93. Abingdon: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jaruga-Nowacka, Izabela. 2000. Zmiana sytuacji kobiet po 1989 roku—poprawa czy pogorszenie? In Polskie oblicza feminizmu. Materiały z konferencji “Polskie oblicza feminizmu”, ed. Weronika Chańska and Danuta Ulicka, 53–57. Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski.

    Google Scholar 

  • KBO. 2016. Koniński Budżet Obywatelski 2015–2019. http://www.kbo.konin.pl/. Accessed 17 Sep 2016.

  • Konarski, Łukasz. 2010. Gender studies na UG? Dziekan prawa: To ja zakładam ośrodek badań nad pedofilią. Gazeta Wyborcza, February 16. http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,7566336,Gender_studies_na_UG__Dziean_prawa__To_ja_zakladam.html. Accessed 24 Feb 2017.

  • Korolczuk, Elżbieta. 2014. ‘The War on Gender’ from a Transnational Perspective Lessons for Feminist Strategising. https://pl.boell.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/10/war_on_gender_korolczuk.pdf. Accessed 23 Feb 2017.

  • KSA. 2014. Kraków dla wszystkich? Polityka antydyskryminacyjna a krakowska administracja samorządowa. Raport z monitoringu 2011–2014. Kraków: Fundacja Autonomia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Łapniewska, Zofia. 2013. Budżetowanie pod kątem płci warunkiem wzrostu jakości życia mieszkanek i mieszkańców. In Budżetowanie wrażliwe na płeć a jakość życia. Raport z projektu “Budżet równych szans. Gender budgeting dla samorządów”, 12–60. Warsaw: UNDP Project Office in Warsaw.

    Google Scholar 

  • ———. 2015a. Metodologia Badań. Projekt ‘Budżet wrażliwy na płeć—inicjatywa konińska’. http://pelnymglosem.pl/wpcontent/uploads/2016/01/metodologia-badan-budzet-wrazliwy-na-plec.pdf. Accessed 14 Sep 2016.

  • ———. 2015b. (Re)claiming Space by Urban Commons. Review of Radical Political Economics. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415616217.

  • ———. 2016a. First-World Aspirations and Feminism Translocation. In Search of Economic and Leftist Alternatives. In Solidarity in Struggle. Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberalism in East-Central Europe, ed. Eszter Kováts, 21–30. Budapest: Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung.

    Google Scholar 

  • ———. 2016b. Well-Being in the Context of Gender Equality. In Gender Equality and Quality of Life. Perspectives from Poland and Norway, ed. Marta Warat, Ewa Krzaklewska, Anna Ratecka, and Krystyna Slany, 61–101. Warsaw: Peter Lang.

    Google Scholar 

  • Łapniewska, Zofia, Magdalena Korona, Ewa Pieszczyk, and Marta Siciarek. 2013. Budżetowanie wrażliwe na płeć a jakość życia. Raport z projektu “Budżet równych szans. Gender budgeting dla samorządów”. Warsaw: UNDP Project Office in Warsaw.

    Google Scholar 

  • Luxmoore, Jonathan. 2014. Polish Church Declares War on Gender Ideology A Pastoral Letter by Polish Bishops Has Caused Backlash from Some Who See Attack as a ‘Witch Hunt’. OSV Newsweekly, January 29. https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/Story/TabId/2672/ArtMID/13567/ArticleID/13990/Polish-Church-declares-war-on-gender-ideology.aspx. Accessed 22 Feb 2017.

  • Nails, Donna, and Julianna Arnold. 2001. Gender Assessment and Plan of Action for USAID/Bulgaria. Washington, DC: WIDTECH.

    Google Scholar 

  • NEWW. 2016. Raporty. http://www.neww.org.pl/achivements/meeting/0.html. Accessed 8 Sep 2016.

  • Nussbaum, Martha C. 2001. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Penn, Shana. 2003. Podziemie kobiet. Trans. Hanna Jankowska. Warszawa: Rosner & Wspólnicy Sp. z o.o.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pratt, Mary L. 1992. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Rothe, Andrea, Birgit Erbe, Werner Fröhlich, Elisabeth Klatzer, Zofia Łapniewska, Monika Mayrhofer, Michaela Neumayr, Michaela Pichlbauer, Malgorzata Tarasiewicz, and Johanna Zebisch with contributions by Maciej Dębski. 2008. Gender Budgeting as a Management Strategy for Gender Equality at Universities. Concluding Project Report. Munich: Frauenakademie München e.V.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sen, Amartya K. 1993. Capability and Well-Being. In The Quality of Life, ed. Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya K. Sen. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Skrzypiec, Ryszard. 2016. Realizacja Konińskiego Budżetu Obywatelskiego. Edycja 2016. Raport z monitoringu. Warszawa: Ośrodek Badania Aktywności Lokalnej.

    Google Scholar 

  • Titkow, Anna. 2005. Praca domowa kobiet—czy powinna być odpłatna? Interview by Aneta Górnicka-Boratyńska. Wysokie Obcasy, Gazeta Wyborcza, April 23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Titkow, Anna, Danuta Duch-Krzystoszek, and Bogusława Budrowska. 2004. Nieodpłatnapraca kobiet. Mity, realia, perspektywy. Warszawa: IFiS PAN.

    Google Scholar 

  • UNDP. 2012. Regulamin konkursu “Budżet równych szans. Gender budgeting dla samorządów”. Warszawa: UNDP Project Office Poland.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1998. Utopistics: Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century. New York: The New Press.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland

    Zofia Łapniewska

Authors
  1. Zofia Łapniewska
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Angela O'Hagan

  2. Independent researcher-activist and international consultant, Feminist Economics and Gender Responsive Budgeting, Vienna, Austria

    Elisabeth Klatzer

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Łapniewska, Z. (2018). Transconceptualisation of Gender Budgeting Ideas in the Polish Context. In: O'Hagan, A., Klatzer, E. (eds) Gender Budgeting in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64891-0_12

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64891-0_12

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64890-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-64891-0

  • eBook Packages: Economics and FinanceEconomics and Finance (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation