ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to describe and analyze the situation of women in the Czech labour market over the period of 25 years since the Velvet Revolution. A number of changes in policies and social institutions have likely affected gender differences in the labour market. The Czech Republic is a small EU country with a little more than 10 million inhabitants situated right in the middle of the European Union. The Czech Republic rapidly adopted a series of reforms to transform the economy and has been considered a fast reformer. The most comprehensive studies on the gender wage gap in the Czech Republic are those of Jurajda, which focus mainly on the role of segregation. The two decades since the fall of the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia have been characterized by two substantial and, to some extent, turbulent events: the economic transition from a centrally planned to a market economy firstly and entry to the European Union secondly.
