Abstract
Proffesional careers of freelance journalists in interwar Czechoslovakia (1918-1938) were limited by a fact that freelance journalism was not reckoned as a full-time job. Freelancers were, in comparison to editorial staff, less payed and less appreciated.
These limits were even more obvious when it was a woman who decided to become freelancer because female journalists in general were relatively new phenomenon after 1918. Women trying to suceed as journalits had to fight strong stereotypes and although very ambitious, well educated and competent they had problems to show their talent outside the newspaper women's pages and specialized women's magazines.
One of these women was Zdena Wattersonová (1890-1980) whose biography well illustrates problems which female freelance journalits had to face. In this paper I summarize Wattersonová's professional career and try to capture her attitude to freelance journalism.