Czech Republic

Almost three-fifths of Czech men and more than four-fifths of Czech women believe that the number of women in Czech politics is insufficient.
To read the full article, please visit the České Noviny's Website.

Women in the Czech Republic face many gender-related frustrations — unequal hiring procedures, lower wages and sexist attitudes at home and on the job. In response, some women have begun to mobilize on certain “female” issues to advocate for their rights and to advance a more gendered perspective in recent years.
To read the full artıcle, please visit the The Prague Post' Website.

Czech women are almost absent from the lists of candidates for the autumn regional and Senate elections, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) reported Monday. The junior government Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) have found one sole woman candidate for the Senate and the senior opposition Social Democrats (CSSD) have five woman candidates for the Senate.
To read the full article, please visit the Prague Daily Monitor's Website.

At an international conference on the new ways to overcome gender stereotypes that took place in Prague within the Czech Republic's EU presidency Kocab said stereotypes in people's thinking complicates the position of women in the Czech Republic. Kocab said that he would push for the passage of an amendment to the election law under which each three candidates on the parties' lists of candidates would have to contain at least one women, which would help achieve the one-third women's participation in politics.

The Czech Interior Ministry is to propose law amendments that would raise women's share in the list of candidates to at least 30 percent, Lejla Abbasova, spokeswoman for Human Rights and Minorities Minister Michael Kocab, said Monday.
To read more, please see the Prague Daily Monitor website.

While the proportion of women in the post-communist world’s parliaments has been slowly rising, they remain woefully under-represented in high legislative positions and in government than in many Western European countries.

An argument can be made that this is still the case in the new-ish Czech government and parliament:

Number of women in the cabinet: Zero.

Number of women committee chairs in the lower house of Parliament: 3 of 17;
… in the Senate: 1 of 8.

The recently released Social Watch 2010 reports point out the low participation of  Czech women in top politics. The report criticizes the fact that no woman was in the Czech government last year.