Women coming to the office of Charles University (20's 20th century)

This bachelor thesis deals with the arrival of women in the office of the Charles University during the first years of independant Czechoslovakia. Based on a comparison of period publications, secondary literature, and subsequent analysis of the archival sources of the Charles University, the aim is to map when and under what circumstances women entered the Charles University office. An analysis of the personal files of clerks leads this work to the conclusion that the first women enroll at Charles-Ferdinand University at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The thesis describes the positions in which officials worked, what their working life was like, and what their career opportunities were. The bachelor thesis is divided into three main chapters. The first of them focus on social changes in the status of women during the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, the second chapter deals with the office of the Charles-Ferdinand and then the Charles University and the arrival of the first women as officials, the third chapter is devoted exclusively to officials of Zdeňka Čacká. Keywords: Charles-Ferdinand University, Charles University, gender, women's emancipation, office, clerk, late 19th century and early 20th century, Zdeňka Čacká