ABSTRACT
Since the collapse of the totalitarian regimes in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Czechoslovakia included, a set of changes in the political and socioeconomic field has started. A long period of isolation from information about women's movements abroad has also been a reason for Eastern European women's reluctance to emphasize their feminine identity. Czech women do not believe that the Western form of women's struggle has brought something positive to them. Women in Czechoslovakia have the option of maternity leave for three years, which is considered, controversially, an advantage, on one side, but, on the other side, a disadvantage as it prevents contact with their profession and the larger society. A problem for women is forced prostitution. In Prague alone, there are about thirty thousand prostitutes. Women's motivation to work at this profession is predominantly economic.
