The "Women's Question" did not succeed in establishing a place for itself in Poland during the 1980s, neither within the framework of the social sciences, relatively free as they were from a political straitjacket, nor within the social movements and political groupings that existed. Until well into the 1970s, against the background of an expanding employment system, a whole branch of research investigated women's qualifications, career patterns, the forms and conditions of women's employment, as well as changes in the division of labour within the household and the structure of the nuclear family, but such research retreated completely into the background from the beginning of the 1980s onwards. The family and its socialisation function became the focus of interest instead. The question of sexual relations within the family and within society generally was relegated unproblematically to a position of secondary importance after the reproduction of society and the transmission of cultural traditions.