Press release
Agora's monthly "Dziecko" (Child) and "Poradnik Domowy" (Housekeeping) received an award from Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment for their competition "Mother friendly company", i.e. for its initiative to break stereotypes regarding working mothers and introducing new standards of women employment.
The distinction was handed on November 23rd, 2010, in Warsaw as part of the conference "the strength of women - the strength of the company" aiming at working out better standards of women employment organized by Elzbieta Radziszewska - Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment and Hanna Gronkiewicz -Waltz - the President of capital city Warsaw.
The competition "Mother friendly company", organized for a sixth time, is a social action aiming at promotion of pro - family programs and positive practices of employers towards young parents helping them to take care of the children and fulfill career ambitions. The enrollment to the competition is done by employees who experienced non-standard, positive solutions addressed to pregnant women and young parents in their workplace.
The winners are named by the jury of the competition consisting of: Henryka Bochniarz (the President of Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan), Sylwia Chutnik (the President of Mama Foundation), professor Irena Kotowska (demographer from Warsaw School of Economics), Anna Otffinowska (the President of the Foundation Humane Birth), Piotr Pacewicz (Deputy Editor in Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza), Dorota Zawadzka (psychologist, SuperNiania - Super Nanny), the representative of the Chancellery of the President and representatives for co-organizers.
This year the organizers of the competition invited to co - operate Polish Confederation of Private Employesr Lewiatan, Research Institute Ipsos, TVN Style, Radio Złote Przeboje, portal eDziecko and Polish Human Resources Management Association. Mrs. Anna Komorowska - the wife of the President of Poland held the honorable patronage over the action.
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