Gender equality law in the Czech Republic, as in other parts of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe, is facing serious challenges. When obliged to adopt, interpret and apply anti-discrimination law as a condition of membership in the EU, Czech legislators and judges have repeatedly expressed hostility and demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding of key ideas underpinning it. This important new study explores this scepticism of gender equality law, examining it with reference to legal and socio-legal developments that started in the state-socialist past and that remain relevant...