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| | Central Europe Review - Czech women's rights movement and higher education |
 | | When the Czechs, together with the Slovaks, finally had a republic of their own in 1918, the Czech public was already well accustomed to the idea of a factory working woman, and was well on its way to getting accustomed to the concept of an academically educated professional woman. |
 | | First, their recent national history was quite generous with them, and second, they just gained a strong and educated ally in the first President of Czechoslovakia, T G Masaryk. |
 | | Teaching was one of the first professional occupations open to women in the nineteenth century, and it was to become one of the over-feminized professions after 1945. |
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