women together ABSL meeting

Last week I participated in a very special meeting organized by Women Together ABSL Poland where I had a pleasure to give a power talk on sisterhood and different approaches to motherhood.

Key points:

🔹 68% of Polish women don’t want to or don’t know if they want to have kids. They still experience questions that undermine their decisions and shaming for choosing a path different than motherhood

🔹Women who choose to have kids pay motherhood penalty: 4% pay cut for each child they have

🔹We can’t live up to unrealistic expectations and in the same time we compete with other women for societal recognition 

🔹We may feel as if there was something wrong with us as whatever women choose, it feels like it’s “not enough”

There is nothing wrong with us.

Rather, there is everything wrong with a society that treats women as if we owed this society a constant explanation and an apology for our choices.

We don’t.

We, as women, need to truly see each other and acknowledge our choices. In the spirit of sisterhood, we can help each other to be truly our authentic selves.

The meeting continued into fantastic group discussions moderated by: Barbara Chaczko, Anna Duvialard, Izabela Górska, Krzysztof Jajuga, Agata Wolszczak and Agnieszka Orłowska with great questions to reflect on. It was my pleasure to facilitate a discussion on how to integrate the narrative of sisterhood in dei.

The evening was a wonderful way to experience women’s perspectives and putting sisterhood in practice. Thank you so much Paulina Baran and Agnieszka Orłowska for this invitation and everyone for such valuable discussions.