Women's Political Representation in the Czech Republic in the Context of the Transition from Communism to Democracy
2016
Abstrakt
This paper gives an overview of women's political representation in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic after the fall of the iron curtain, framed in the context of the transition from Communism to democracy. It is concerned with both continuity and discontinuity between the old and the new regime regarding the political engagement of women - the persistence of traditional family model and gender stereotypes on one hand, and the radically changed roles of the private and the public sphere on the other.
It focuses on the mechanisms disadvantaging women in their access to political power and on public attitudes to the measures which could level the playing field, namely gender quotas for political party candidate lists.