[5] This decision followed a suffrage movement within Austria-Hungary with prominent Czech suffragists including Františka Plamínková, Marie Tůmová, and Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk.

While the right to vote was not codified into law until the 1920 Constitution, female candidates were featured in Czech elections in the early 1920s.

[11] The World Bank estimates that the Czech Republic's female labor force participation rate for those 15 years or older was 52.81% in 2019.

Approximately 25% of women work in education, human health, and social services activities compared to 5% of men.

[20][21] Markéta Pekarová Adamová has served as the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies since 2021 and leader of the TOP 09 political party since 2019.

[20] While Czech women remain underrepresented, the amount of female candidates and politicians elected to the national government has steadily increased in the last few decades.

The Czech government previously opposed the implementation of EU gender quotas that would require 40% of board positions in publicity owned companies to go to women.

[25] There is a significant number of women in higher educational institutions as more than 60% of bachelor's and master's graduates were female in 2013.

While overall tertiary educational attainment for Czech women is high, female enrollment rates for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees remains relatively low.