The Constitutional General Guarantee of Equality and Actual Gender Equality in the Polish Council of Ministers in 1989–2019

The objective of the article is to analyze equal access of women and men to positions in the Polish Council of Ministers after 1989. The percentage of women in the Councils of Ministers established between 1989 and 2019 was at the level of 12.55%. Only in the office of Kopacz, the female ratio reached the value of 31.58%, i.e. the level of the so-called critical mass of 30%, which may constitute the threshold of the real influence of women on political decisions. The governments of Morawiecki (1st government) and Szydło were composed of 27% and 25% women, respectively. However, only 13% of women were in the subsequent (2nd) cabinet of Morawiecki. This proves that in the coming years in Poland, the perspective of gender balanced governments, which were created, among others: by the Prime Ministers of Sweden in 2014–2021 and of Canada since 2015, is unlikely to be realized.