The recently released Social Watch 2010 reports point out the low participation of  Czech women in top politics. The report criticizes the fact that no woman was in the Czech government last year. Moreover,  only 22 percent of female deputies were elected to the Czech Parliament.  According to the report findings, the low representation of women in top politics is not due to lack of female politicians or voters' disinterest but to political party's practices that promote male party members in their list of candidates. 

Quotas are needed to ensure equal representation of women in the private and public sectors, agreed most participants in a meeting held by the EP Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee with national parliaments' representatives on Thursday, ahead of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day on 8 March. Speakers also advocated changing national electoral rules to increase women's representation at local, regional and national level in politics.

At an international conference on the new ways to overcome gender stereotypes that took place in Prague within the Czech Republic's EU presidency Kocab said stereotypes in people's thinking complicates the position of women in the Czech Republic. Kocab said that he would push for the passage of an amendment to the election law under which each three candidates on the parties' lists of candidates would have to contain at least one women, which would help achieve the one-third women's participation in politics.

Women in the Czech Republic face many gender-related frustrations — unequal hiring procedures, lower wages and sexist attitudes at home and on the job. In response, some women have begun to mobilize on certain “female” issues to advocate for their rights and to advance a more gendered perspective in recent years.