To nie jest państwo dla kobiet, czyli pozycja polityczek i działaczek w Czechosłowacji i Republice Czeskiej w latach 1918–2023

Abstract

This paper discusses the position of women in the Czechoslovak and Czech parliaments over the last one hundred years. On the one hand, it shows declarative support for the political career of the ladies willing to devote their time and energy working for the state. On the other hand, it describes the challenges women choosing this kind of life have had to face. Czech society, so open to changes modernising their state, was not and still is not ready to admit that the work of an MP, a male or female politician, should be judged equally, regardless of their sex. The author points out the most important, in her opinion, causes of this attitude in the subsequent decades of Czechoslovak and Czech history.