Problems besetting the Polish society in the post-war period (massive migration, reconstruction of the country after war-time destruction, industrialization involving high social costs, sluggish growth of living standards, recurring strains and political crises) united society more than divided it along sex lines. High legal equality and fast industrialization combined with widespread occupational mobilization of women, without, howover, ensuring their real equality, resulted in the emergence in some socio-occupational groups of attitudes that at times (especially recently) are quite different than demands for women's greater social and political activity.
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