The Role of a Woman Voting in the 1919 Legislative Sejm Elections

This article presents the subject of the role of women voting in elections to the Legislative Sejm. However, this is not the story of women recognized by society and elected representatives in the Sejm of the reborn Poland. This is the story of women who were called for the first time to vote in elections. Receiving full public rights after many years of ignorance on the part of men, they were urged and encouraged to appear in elections. The main inspiration for this article was to find leaflets, posters and appeals to Polish citizens before the elections to the 1919 legislative parliament. We were impressed by the number of appeals to women who began to be treated as full citizens of the Second Polish Republic. After reviewing the materials, we decided to familiarize the reader with the reality of the parliamentary elections and the role of women they played in this important event of rebuilding Poland.