Abstract
The paper deals with the issue of emergence of women in the legal academy in Czechoslovakia (its Czech part) and the Czech Republic. It describes the situation since 1918, when women were first allowed to study law and follows women's first careers in legal science.
For the period after the Second World War, the chapter provides data and historical information on the gradual increase in the number of women in the legal professions. The key to this increase was the 1950s and especially the 1960s, when new jobs were opened up (also for women) as a result of the teaching reform and as discrimination ceased as a result of the official political promotion of equality between women and men.
The number of women law students increased during the 1950s and 1960s, when it became more or less equal to number of male students. Another rise of number of women law teachers occured at the beginning of normalization, as the victims of political purges were mostly men and a large proportion of newly hired staff were women.
At that time, the share of women approached 30%, which was a value at which it remained until 1989 as well as for a long time after 1989. The article also notes the differences between the various faculties and describes the careers of several important Czech women legal scholars.