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Abstract: There is no doubt that the period of Nazi occupation and of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was one of the most difficult ones in the nation´s past. What was the position of women in that "society locked in a totalitarian regime" viewed from the societal perspective? In the early 20th century women had already achieved a great progress in their emancipation. After the emergence of an independent state, society was slowly getting used to the equality of rights of both sexes. Still, women had to face a number of problems during the existence of independent and democratic Czechoslovakia. The Second World War changed their position both at the official and unofficial level. On the one hand, women were expected to concentrate on their age-long role of motherhood; on the other hand, however, they constituted an important and large labor force in the Nazi idelology. Irreversible transofrmations of the position of women in society took place in the occupied coutnry and were then also reflected in the postwar period. Women became a very important segment of labor force expected to help with the postwar economic recovery, which applies not only to the period of 1945-1948, but primarily to the subsequent period during which the position of women changed dramatically. |
