Forget all the stigmas about Polish women - and know the breakthroughs
In an age when we all know the importance of promoting women's status, Poland has been there before. Three women were already headed there and local history is full of other examples of strong women
Forget all the stigmas about Polish women - and know the breakthroughs
In collaboration with the Polish Institute of IsraelWhat do you have in common with the first European woman in Hollywood, the only woman in the world to receive two Nobel prizes and James Bond girl Natalia Simonova? Right! All women and all ... Polish!
In an age when we all know the importance of promoting women's status, Poland has been there before! Three women were already headed there and the Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislava Shimborska we all heard and so it is worth getting to know the next star - author Olga Tokarczuk - the Nobel Prize winner for 2018.
Want to know more extraordinary Polish women? Skwedowska Kiri, known as 'Marie Kiri' - a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. How many pioneers? She was the first to discover the dangers of radioactivity (about herself). The experiments that killed Kyrie gave her a Nobel Prize. Twice. She is the first woman to win the Nobel and to this day is the only person to receive the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. Not only did Einstein say she was the only woman in the world he adored ...
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To the full articlePaula Negri - (Apollonia Hufitz). Actress and singer and in fact the first European woman to star in Hollywood! Years later another Polish woman will scorch the screens and she is Isabella Skorupko who played Bond girl Natalia Simonova in the 1995 James Bond movie "GoldenEye".
What about music? The violinist and composer Grazina Batzevich was active in the middle of the last century, a time when women were not at all in such positions, and therefore paved the way for contemporary conductors such as Monica Volinska and Jagoda Szmytka who conducted many symphonic orchestras.
And in successful women in Poland! Dr. Irena Aris, who started as a pharmacist, has become an empire of luxury cosmetics and spa hotels. Because ... How to say in Polish? - Cudowna Kobieto nigdy nie zapominaj
(Wonder Woman don't you ever forget)
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