Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Editors: Barbora Tupá in co-operation with Alice Červinková, Marcela Linková, Dana Řeháčková and Kateřina Šaldová

A Room of One’s Own: 10 Views has been published thanks to the support of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.
The Woman of the Month project ran from Spring 2002 until the end of 2004.
Interviews presented in the publication are ordered chronologically.

Contents

Marie Čermáková
I thought that for a person to succeed, it requires ability, hard work, diligence and talent

Eva Syková
Activities supporting women in science have been long in coming

Soňa Nevšímalová
Neurology has always attracted me as an interesting and elegant discipline

Martina Pachmanová
There is no one, true and correct history

Věra Kůrková
I have never longed for success, I have longed to have my work, my spiritual child that would make me happy

Terezie Fučíková
A woman cannot beat a man because she can’t win, but this is not true in science

Ludmila Křivánková
For a long time I have been the only woman among men

Věra Majerová
A large part of what can be called my scientific career came after 1989

Ludmila Fialová
Prominent scientists should rank at least in the upper-middle, socio-economic classes

Blanka Říhová
In elementary school I longed to sing and dance through life