Lowest number of women in Czech post-communist history to run for parliament - 24-01-2006 - Radio Prague
Only some 15 percent of Czech MPs are women and there are just two women ministers in the 17-member cabinet. The situation is unlikely to change after this year's parliamentary elections because - as the existing candidate lists suggest - the lowest number of women since the fall of communism will be running for seats in the lower house. Pavla Horakova reports.

Now, this is without question bad news. Hard to trace the roots of this to culture alone. I wonder if a lot of it is a Czech (Thatcher/Reagan-inspired) distaste for any regulation and in particular equal treatment protection measures that have even a whif of affirmative action - which in Czech is pozitivní diskriminace.