An indirect admission that there is unemployment anong women in Czechoslovakia appeared in an article published in "Mlada Fronta", organ of the Czechoslovak communist youth organisation, on 19 March 1563. Quoting the case of a woman worker in Nove Straseci, the paper said that she had been looking in vain for a job for over a year, even as a saleswoman ina retail Shop. She is the mother of two small children.
On the oceasion of women's day, which was celebrated recently in Czechoslovakia, countless articles were published alleging that in recent years women had obtained equal rights with men. It added that some efforts still had to -be made to enable married women to take up a vocational career. All the same, the communist party officials' review "Zivot Strany" had to confess in its March issue that the average wages of women were no less than 500 crowns, or nearly one third, lower than men's wagese
(From PRS of the International Confederation of Free Trade Uniow