Scholarly Careers of Polish Women Historians in the Era of the People’s Republic of Poland (Selected Universities)

• Authors: Jolanta Kolbuszewska

Abstracts

EN

This article offers a survey of the careers of 54 Polish female historians who received the habilitacja degree in 1945–1989 at seven Polish universities – four of those were founded soon after the Second World War (University of Łódź, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, University of Wrocław, Maria Skłodowska‑Curie University in Lublin), while three had been established earlier (University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań). Analysis of personal files and various biographical materials has led the author to a number of conclusions about female historians’ academic careers. The careers reflected the discipline’s development, both in terms of the expansion of its field of inquiry, as well its methodological diversity and the conditions in which it operated. Career paths followed by women were not much different from those followed by men. Neither advancement requirements, nor employment policy at the schools of higher learning were discriminatory towards any of the sexes. However, as far as the female career advancement is concerned, there were some differences between the old and new universities: it was easier for women to obtain managerial positions at the latter.

Keywords

EN

history of historiography; history of science; women in science; academic careers; prosopography; the Polish People’s Republic

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historyka Studia Metodologiczne
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 51
• Issue: Spec. iss.
• Pages: 283-297

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Jolanta Kolbuszewska

• University of Łódź

• https://orcid.org/0000000288377376

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/hsm.2021.138889

Biblioteka Nauki

20312080