UNDERSTANDING LOW FERTILITY IN POLAND: DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF GENDERED DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND POSTSOCIALIST NEOLIBERAL RESTRUCTURING
After Poland’s state socialist regime collapsed in 1989, the nation’s total fertility rate plummeted from 2.1 to 1.3 by 2013, and is currently one of the lowest childbearing rates in the European Union. Simultaneously, the state reduced motherhood-friendly social services, including subsidized chil...
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Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Etnografia Polska |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.iaepan.pl/ep/article/view/88 |