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/^t/Fighting over the years for women's rights, feminists have intended to gain equality not only in the field of politics but also in public life, i.e. education and work. In both those places, however, females are conspicuously discriminated. Educated women still constitute a minority in our country, although more and more of them manage to graduate. One of the most arduous female problems is the fact of having a baby during studies. A woman with new additional responsibilities, connected with bringing up a child, is less likely to finish her education with a master degree, there existing many inconveniences from the academic authorities' side. As far as work is concerned, women experience difficulties in finding a job and, then, keeping it. The obviously less-secure position of females results from the belief that they are less efficient workers, not being able to devote as much energy and time as males do. Additionally, women frequently take advantage of their right to get numerous sick leaves, either because of children's health problems or their own's. Therefore, females' earnings constitute only two thirds of males' earnings for the same kind of work, which is another explicit evidence for the lack of equality between sexes.