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At the beginning of May 2004, the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences launched a research project entitled 'Women in the political elite'. Towards the end of the previous parliamentary term, that is, the 4th term, there were 100 women in the Seym. 85 of them were interviewed for the project. The authoress has based her paper on 57 interviews with women MPs who have their...