Sociální politika pohledem československých a britských poslankyň v letech 1945–1948
Social Policy through the Eyes of Czechoslovak and British Female Members of Parliament during the 1945–1948 Period

Summary/Abstract: The women’s electorate in the parliaments of the Third Republic and in the Thirty-eighth Parliament of Great Britain endeavoured to create fairer so­cial arrangements, an integral element of which include assurance of healthy motherhood and achievement of gender equality in everyday life. The issues of infant mortality, improvement of care by medical and nursing institutions or assurance of the improved wellbeing of women and children, were of unquestionable importance to the activities of female MPs in the Czechoslovak Republic and in Great Britain. The female MPs of both countries based their activities on similar expectations, such as equal conditions for women on the job market and true wage equality. The common reason for advancing these requirements was the fact that men and women had fought and worked together during the Second World War. The different post-war development of both countries led to different results. Escalating political developments in the Czechoslovak Republic disrupted the gender agenda and mutual communication between female MPs and culminated in Sovietisation of the social system, while Great Britain continued to realise a social state.

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