Location: Central Europe
Capital: Warsaw
Climate: Temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers.
Population: 38,518,241 (July 2007 est.)
Religions: Roman Catholic 89.8%, Eastern Orthodox 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, other 0.3%, unspecified 8.3% (2002)
Government: Republic
Economy:
Polish farms tend to be small and inefficient; they produce only 5 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.
Division of Labor by Gender.
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Capital: Warsaw
Climate: Temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers.
Population: 38,518,241 (July 2007 est.)
Religions: Roman Catholic 89.8%, Eastern Orthodox 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, other 0.3%, unspecified 8.3% (2002)
Government: Republic
Economy:
- Advancing economic freedom for the fifth consecutive year, the Polish economy recorded the 10th largest score improvement in the 2013 Index.
- Barriers to free trade are quite low, and commercial operations are aided by regulations that support open-market policies.
- With a transparent and favorable business climate further supported by political stability, Poland has created a dynamic environment for entrepreneurs.
- Its economy is the only one in Europe that has expanded every year over the past two decades. Poland’s unemployment rate is 10.1%.
- ( http://www.heritage.org/index/country/poland)
- Poland is pretty much ethnically homogeneous. Ukrainian, Belorussian, Slovakian, and Lithuanian minorities reside along the borders.
- A German minority is concentrated near the southwest city of Opole.
- The capital and other cities are experiencing some inward migration from foreigners.
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- The family is the centre of the social structure. One’s obligation is to the family first and foremost. Extended families are still the norm and really form an individual’s social network.
- (http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/poland.html)
- The highest law is the Constitution of 16 October 1997.
- The Polish government is divided into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. The executive branch includes a president, a prime minister, two deputy prime ministers, and a cabinet or council of ministers.
- The president, who is the chief of state, is elected by a popular vote for a five-year term.
- The prime minister and the deputy prime ministers are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Sejm .
- The prime minister nominates and the president appoints the members of the council of ministers who are then approved by the Sejm.
Polish farms tend to be small and inefficient; they produce only 5 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.
Division of Labor by Gender.
- Traditionally, the woman's place was in the home, and her rule in household matters was absolute.
- By 1979, women were 43.4 percent of the work force.
- In 1988, 45 percent.
- In 1996, 46 percent.
- According to a study, women employed outside the home averaged 6.5 hours on the job and 4.3 hours on housework, while women without jobs spent 8.1 hours on housework.
- Women live in a male-oriented society with few groups working to change the national attitudes.
- They are subject to family violence at home and sexual harassment in the work place.
- They also have less access to credit and jobs.
- Very few women have achieved top leadership positions in politics, business, and the professions.
- They are excluded from leadership in the Catholic Church.
- The wife is expected to make it clear that her husband is the head of the family. However, a man will not make important decisions without consulting his wife. In upper class and intelligentsia families the relationship is more equal, and a man places great value on his wife's opinions and counsel.
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- In Poland, you are allowed to kill a man if he is standing in the city centre at 12PM with a bow and arrow.
- In Krakow, Poland it’s not only a crime to have sex with animals, but three-time offenders are shot in the head.