This chapter deals with the issue of the political representation of women in Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic in the context of the transition from Communism to democracy. It focues on the elements of both continuity and discontinuity between the old and the new regime in regard to the political engagement of women.
It studies the factors influencing the position of women in the elective political institutions after 1989 in relation to the complex and contradictory heritage of Communism.