The value of work in the spiritual life of a woman according to Jadwiga Zamoyska and Maria Karłowska

Abstract

The awareness that through work a woman participates in the work of creation is the deepest impulse to take up work in various sectors. Today we know that the role of work in women’s lives is huge and determines their place in society. Work is also a woman’s continuous personal development. Thanks to it, she acquires new skills, improves her competences and learns new things. Culture also plays an important role in the perception of work. Hence the need to promote the humanization of work, which was fought for at the turn of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, thus contributing to the development of humanity. The development taking place through work allows a woman to achieve a moral personality, which is a multiplication of her natural abilities for moral evaluation of a human being. The article indicates the need to combine work with the spiritual life of a woman, so that work leads her not only to improve things (products of work), but also to improve her internally as a person, therefore the moral and spiritual dimension of human work should be constantly restored (work as a spiritual and moral value). This current issue has been shown on the basis of the educational works of two women from Greater Poland — Jadwiga Zamoyska and Maria Karłowska — who lived at the turn of the last two centuries.