ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the patterns of multidimensional gender gaps in the Polish labour market between the 1980s and the middle 2010s. It begins by describing the labour market position of men and women during the communist era of theoretically full employment, and its abrupt fall in the aftermath of the transition. The chapter describes the evolution of gender employment gaps in the 1990s and 2000s and explain their pro-cyclicality. It focuses on the gender gaps in employment security, as evidenced by the differences in the incidence of various types of non-regular job contracts among men and women in Poland. The chapter looks at the unequal distribution of household and care duties among men and women, which has constituted an important factor behind the employment and pay gaps observed in the Polish labour market. The collapse of the centrally planned economy in 1989 brought about an economic shock that affected the labour market in Poland in multiple ways.
