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Women in post-communist Poland face increasing discrimination in employment, domestic violence and health care, according to the human-rights group Helsinki Watch in New York and the Women`s Rights Project in Washington. Under communism, Polish women suffered gender discrimination but virtually no unemployment, the report says. But by late 1990, 52.4 percent of Poland`s unemployed were women. ”Women have been taking the brunt, a real hit, as the economic crisis deepens,” says Dorothy Thomas, project director.
