Czechoslovak Women's Union (CWU) ( cs, italics=no, Československý svaz žen (ČSŽ)) was a state women's organization in

Communist Czechoslovakia The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, ČSSR, formerly known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic or Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, was the official name of Czechoslovakia from 1960 to 29 March 1990, when it was renamed the Czechoslovak ...

, founded in 1950.Byl ustaven Československý svaz žen v čele s Marií Kabrhelovou (díl ze seriálu Vyprávěj od České televize) It was a state organization and a branch of the Communist Party. After the Communist take over, the excisting women's organizations, until then under the umbrella organization Women's National Council, was dissolved and incorporated in to the state women's union. Its purpose was to mobilise women in the political ideology of the state, as well as to enforce the party's policy within gender roles and women's rights. It played an important role in the life of women in the state during its existence.

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