10 Lessons We Can Learn from Czech Women

Guys!!!!!! I have been lived more than 10 years in Prague.I met sure more than 100 czech girls, I had records of so quick to get a czech girl in bed......Just one, one russian girl "my angel" came into my life in staromestska square and completly changed my life,am very happy and we are together almost 4 years.Guys, if you want serious relationship, love,family, strong culture and personality, well educated, go ahead, look for russian beauties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't waste your time!!!

Guys!!!!!! I have been lived more than 10 years in Prague.I met sure more than 100 czech girls, I had records of so quick to get a czech girl in bed......Just one, one russian girl "my angel" came into my life in staromestska square and completly changed my life,am very happy and we are together almost 4 years.Guys, if you want serious relationship, love,family, strong culture and personality, well educated, go ahead, look for russian beauties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't waste your time!!!

On the pictures you have two Slovakian women :-) Czech girls are not only Prague girls. People differ from age and region here. Bad dressed:-) You, "west Europeans" ... Try to exist with your family with 1/6 of your salary. Where will you save on?

On the pictures you have two Slovakian women :-) (actresses) People are the same all around the world.

this is mostly addressing jeff's comment: your bashing on american women demonstrates the attitude of the typical, scorned SexPat--the guy who was repeatedly rejected and dissed by women of his own country until he'd finally had enough and decided to move eastbound, where he'd stereotyped women to be more submissive, reserved, and desperate. you're probably whoo-ed by their accents, their endearing little grammatical errors, and their provocative clothing, however poorly matched. (sorry, but it's true, as the article pointed out.) perhaps if you understood the language of these non-anglo women, you might see that they're just as capable of expressing anger and uttering curse words, like ANY human being. you must realize that you're making broad, negative generalizations on ONE nation that's larger than the continent of europe. however, i suppose i'll offer you the benefit of the doubt, and chalk your words up to being the classical example of the grass being greener on the other side. you're entitled to your opinion and feelings for non-american women, but why diss us on a public forum?

I'm wrighting this as a response to ahanova's comment, by which I was rather offended. 'Perhaps she should spend some time in the country and see the variety of people that she may come across' - if you had spent some time in the country then you would see how caring, helpful and genuinly nice the women there are. From my experience of living in a rural village, when ever I had needed something I could simply go to my neighbours, who were glad to help. When my neighbour made more soup or cake she would come and give me some. This hopefully will help you understand how generous Czech women are. I have also lived in Prgaue and experienced the same helpfulness and kindness from women I hardly know. The women, yes, are "nice to your face", but "talk behind your back", - In every country women talk behind your back, especially in Englishwomen. Czechwomen when they do sometimes talk behind your back it is never to be mean however because they need your advice how to deal with a problem they have caused , etc. Also when they do talk behind your back they do it very politely, perhaps you could say unintentially. From my experience of knowing and living around Czech women I can tell you that they are genuine and aren't just 'nice to your face', if they aren't fond of you they'll put on a brave face and try to make you comfortable. That expression describes English women and American women more than anyone else but perhaps maybe some Russian women a bit would fall under that expression. 'Czech women are cold, indifferent, greedy, vain and cunning' - I very much disagree with this, as I have mentioned above a few times already, they're absolutely lovely. I can honestly say that no Czech woman I know or see is vain or greedy. Personally I see myself as cunning but not in a horrible way. 'I don't think that many of them have a very good sense of independence' - I disagree with this rather alot as Czech women have jobs, have an increadably well kept house, take care of the garden, and family ofcourse. Doesn't thins prove that they are independent, as they can manage everything on their own anyway. 'going to good schools to find future doctors or professors to marry, instead of worrying about their own education to further themselves.' - if you actually knew Czech women then you wouldn't say this many Czech women go into higher education to become sucessful, not to marry someone who is sucessful. Even women from rural villages go and study in university to get a degree in law or biochemistry, some become hairdressers, some work in the forest, they do what they choose to do, as they are very hardworking and enjoy work. With all due respect, the Czech Republic as a country is doing rather well in the current economic crisis as hardly any people take out loans, we have the least amount of people living on or under the poverty line out of Europe. Unlike America or England have many poor people living in horrendous conditions and taking out more and more loans. Also there are a low number of obese people. So the Czech Republic must be doing something right. Source: Me, I am Czech, I have lived both in a small village and Prague in the Czech Republic. I was educated in private international schools in Western Europe thus I know alot about different nationalities and the Czech Republic. I absolutely love working and I would hate to have no job and rely on someone else for money.

By the way... In addition to my previous comment: As I may sound a bit feminist... I help my husband run a business, I care for my home, have 3 children, am college educated and my husband had never previously been married. He chose not to marry a Czech woman, came here, gained legal status on his own and eventually married me (with whom he has children). We have been married for almost 7 years. We don't see a divorce in our near future. :)

In reading this article, I get the feeling that the writer has never spent any significant amount of time in the Czech Republic. Furthermore, she seems only to have spent time with certain women who have certainly achieved different levels of success in their lives (for example she often times refers to "most of" her "Czech friends"). Perhaps she should spend some time in the country and see the variety of people that she may come across. That being said, I also see that these traits mentioned also can be used to describe many women of other nationalities, including American. I am an American woman and I am married to a wonderful Czech man. He is one of a kind and I am glad that we have found each other in this very large world. His view, and I would say that it is valid, is very different than the author of this article. He feels that Czech women are cold, indifferent, greedy, vain and cunning. Perhaps that is why the divorce rate is very high in their country. I, too, have traveled extensively through the Czech Republic and Slovakia, numerous times, and have spent long periods there, as a second home. The women, yes, are "nice to your face", but "talk behind your back", as the expressions go. I don't think that many of them have a very good sense of independence, going to good schools to find future doctors or professors to marry, instead of worrying about their own education to further themselves. This, of course, is brought on by an age old problem with the "old school" businessmen, who think that a slap on the rear of a female co-worker is still okay. However, it is a different culture, with all due respect, and I believe that they are entitled to live by their own standards.

As a working traveller, I say almost any country has more desirable women than the Anglo West. It's not tough to top American women, with who I am most familiar; angry, foul mouthed, spoiled, demanding, aggressive, often overweight and generally lacking fashion sense. Not to mention an endless ability for deluding themselves about their desirability. My apologies to the rare exceptions. It is no small wonder that anglo expat women are all but invisible to expat men, and slaughtered in the dating market by the local women. The previous comments by women to this article certainly reinforce my some of my assertions.

Naturally, this article gets blasted by American/western women. Progress is slow I guess.

as ms. haas has stated, she had expected and hoped that her article would provoke discussion, and clearly, it has. try to not take offense while reading this article, and stop looking at it as a case of the expat woman versus the czech woman. as "blanka fialova" wrote below, "there is no way we can (compete)." why? because in the czech republic, especially those of us who hail from the united states-- we are foreign, we are exotic, and come from a whole lifetime of differences in backgrounds, experiences, etc. literally, we american woman hail from the other side of the planet! therefore, it cannot be seen as a competition. we have our own lovely qualities to offer that no local woman does, and vice-versa. embrace what you have!

10 Lessons We Can Learn from Czech Women Expat men typically fall for Czech women; how can expat women compete? obviously those of you reading the title were looking for the answer....here it is...there is no way you can :-p

I don't think you can really learn any positively great things from Czech women. I have found them to be rather selfish, racist and prejudiced. this is especially to non-white people. the Czech culture does not exist in the young generation, because these girls now are the gebneration that grew up after the revolution, so they are imitating the American or western ideals but at the same time their ideas of the world is quite closed. they have no sense of being open and dynamic with differrent cultures. cultural diversity does not exist in this country. Czech women are racist, but they see it as very normal.

These two articles - Czech women and Czech men - were a bad idea right from the beginning. Date Czech men because of their "attributes"? Talk in a reasonable tone of voice because Czech women do? The problem is, as many people have pointed out, these are very broad generalizations. Not one of them, in my opinion, can apply to all, most, or even a large number of Czechs. Possibly, Haas struggled mightily to come up with several points about Czech men and women simply to have enough material for her articles. Since she claims she has "chosen to highlight several aspects of their personalities that I find admirable," why not use that slant, instead of applying her experiences to the entire nation? The article about Czech men reads like a plea for foreign women to date them; the follow-up article makes it sound as if Czech women are a breed apart, with little or nothing in common with women from other nations.

While I expect and even hope that these articles will encourage discussion, I am baffled by the personal attacks at my expense. It's frustrating that many of the commenters here seem to have little or no understanding of what was actually written in the article and what's worse would rather leave low-brow remarks than thoughtful insights. No one is stereotyping here, please read again. We do not live in a homogenous world. Czech women and American women are not entirely alike, as anyone who has spent years living with them, working with them, and being friends with them is well aware. There is not one stereotypical statement here. I have chosen to highlight several aspects of their personalities that I find admirable. Therein lies the beauty of the essay---it is taken from the author's point of view and personal observations. It is not a statement of fact. The only misleading thing about this article is the way the editor has written the sub-headline---I never intended for this to be a primer for American women on how to compete with Czech women for men, rather thoughts on what we can learn from their sometimes differing approach to love and life. I respect all differences of opinion here but my personal life shouldn't enter into it. (By the way I'm married, so no, not scorned, pregnant, so not too hungover either, and truly not ugly enough to respond to the last commenter.)

Most ridiculous article I have read in a very long time. First of all you can never generalize a whole culture like this. There is no such thing as a 'czech woman'. The Czech woman you describe I have never met. Women all over the world come in different sizes and shapes. The way you talk about Czech woman gives the impression that you yourself are very frustrated or / and very ugly. Because why compare yourself along these very backward / superficial criteria to other women from a different culture? It just does not mak sense. Hope there will be better articles soon.

ridiculous article. You have a 'For men' article on sport and 'for her' an article on the wiley ways of czech women and how they get men. How cliche can you get - I think the writer had a very tight deadline and was probably hungover!

Czech women contribute to my pride in being an American man of a good serving of Czech ancestry.

@ my3cats528 ---> LOL! You think Elizabeth Haas must have just gotten dumped for a Czech woman? She just got married to a Czech man! READ THE ARTICLE AGAIN. She's not slamming Czech women.

8,7,6- fail.

As a Czech male, not often thinking along these lines and making comparisons, this is an interesting angle to look at "our" women. Sure generalizations are always tricky, but I liked to read this and enjoyed this point of view.

It seems to me that the author of this article does not really know what she is talking about. Most importantly, she is taking cultural differences and applying them universally. Don't think those Czech women are so perfect. Pragmatical yes, but also the highest rates of infidelity and divorce. Strange fashion sense - this actually usually is because a whole lot of them don't know how to dress. In the end, every person is different and cultural norms make huge differences in cultural arenas. While piping down may be good advice to most Western women in general, taking that advice back home, as a good deal of the above, would label you negatively (perhaps as a "negative Nancy" or some other crap) and give you a bad image there - why?, because it does not fit in that culture. And if you say that Czech women get away with it in the West, that is true because, in general, they are better looking, more sexually open and active, and they have (probably due to Czech men) a different understanding of the "leagues" they are in (or rather which men can play on their field).

The biggest difference between Czech women and American women is that they perceive being a sex object as a good thing. (Also, they don't play hard to get, so I think you are off on that one, but you made some good points)

that's the risk you take when you start comparing....anyone....period. it's always offensive or upsetting. it would be more entertaining if we could read part2 to this article '10 lesson we can learn from expat women'...any ideas?

People.. don't take all so personal, some ract like if they touch their "weak bone"... better, read, understand and use the parts which concern you...and respect the parts which don't...

Obviously Czech women are the Easiest women of all eastern countries! :) They target unavailable man, seduce him, use him, destroys his relationship and moves on to the next one! This don't really seem house and family oriented! In fact, too easy to get!

This is more in reaction to some of the comments more than the article, but here it goes. I am a czech woman and I am sooo sooo tired of this stereotyping of czech women. Its so cliche. Me and lots of my czech female friends are well educated, very well travelled, have good jobs etc. and not all of us are in a desperate need of an expat man for money or whatever (like hello, times have changed, I earn more than most of my expat male friends in Prague). I also found women in many parts of the world to be just as beautiful as czech women. I also do not believe that czech women do not know how to dress or overdress or whatever. In every country there are ppl. with various taste in clothing and there is a variety here too. Not all of us are the same and I really dislike how so many cliches apply to us when I have for example never heard so many cliches about Irish women for example. Articles like this just help to promote the cliches unfortunately. And like someone here already said, an expat man who pursues certain perceived qualities in czech women would usually be the type who'd apply the same perceived qualities to Asian women as well.

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I thought this article would be interesting, but... It appears the author Elizibeth Haas, has been recently dumped for a Czech woman and in effort to get closure and appear like the bigger person, she writes an article singing the praises of Czech women. In essence all women have traits 1-10 or possess the ability to use such character traits. I still have yet to see a Czech woman "play hard to get". Actually the opposite, if you want to learn a lesson from Czech women to score a man... Follow these basic steps: 1) Identify your target (preferably good looking, foreign & liquid net worth). 2) Smile at your target and tell him you really want to learn his language and think he is really sexy. 3) Ask your target what he thinks of Czech woman. 4) Slam a shot of tequila with your target at his local pub and then off back to his place, for all night sex marathon. The dirtier the better. 5) Mission accomplished!!! You now have a new man! 5 Easy Steps to Success Every Time. Mrs. Haas, Not only did I save you and your readers time with my summery, but I have also reduced the real life application steps by 50%. Happy Man Hunting!!!

A few good points, but overall, I don't find the kind of 'expat' men who want Czech women very attractive. In general, they seem to have a percieved fetish of what Czech women are (similar to Western men who go after Asian women), and many of the things they complain about in "western" women are found to the extreme in Czech women (demanding, pushy). Would have liked the article a bit more if it wasn't about competing for expat men...not all women need to fight over the small selection of worthy men here. Encourage the expat women to go native...it can be worth it ;)

True: Light dinner and heavier lunch is the key for keeping weight down! :)

The fact that this article begins with the title "how can Western women compete?" really says it all. This article begins from the premise that women are preoccupied with seeing each other as competitors for men. And the awful rhetorical question in number 2 "pipe down"...it all seems a bit vacuous to me.

Also, reading all the comments below, I am appalled by the amount of disinformation. First, Czech women have in many ways been more emancipated than American or British women. For a start, unlike the US this country does not have an entire class of unemployed suburban desperate housewives. Which is usually considered as one of the explanations for why feminism is not popular with Czech women - they haven't needed it as much as, say, American women. Second, the "gender pay gap" in this country is about the same as it is in Britain and lower than in Germany.

It's really pathetic how the author keeps contrasting "Czech" and "Western" while it is very clear that by "Western" she in fact means "American." Sometimes her approach does not work, such as in 4. Then it is suddenly no longer "Czech" versus "Western."

wow... i didn't think it possible, but this article is even more idiotic than the one about czech beer recently gracing the pages of this site. keep up the good work, expats.cz! what's next, an insightful article entitled "do czechs like hockey?" or a riveting expose on mushroom picking? ffs.

I think the author does make some valid points and it's incredibly important to discuss the role of women in society and in different cultures. No culture is better then another - we all have something to learn and something to bring to the table. And let's face it, no two women are the same. And to kilode-ne - ha ha ha! I think you're right, but is it just cz or is it the experience of living in a foreign culture that messes you up? Or are we drawn to cz because we are already strange? Either way, it's worth it for the beer and becherovka! ;) And I hope your keyboard is able to recover.

sacking off my keyboard. Czech republic has gotten into it. Not good.

to all those vaunting how long they've lived here in Czech republic: note that this is probably not something to be very proud of depending on how you look at it. I am yet to see a foreigner who has lived here for more than 1 year and is still normal. The country does something to them. It gets in their brain and maybe messes with it the same way your 3 year old son goes about messing up the new toy radio you just bought him. The process is gradual but its there all the same. In the end, they would have all changed from the men they were but they would not even know it.

I have lived in the Czech Rep since 2002 and have never found Czech women to be submissive. Nor are they "the same as women from anywhere else." I have found them to be loving, generous, passionate, well-educated, open, physically beautiful, intelligent, cultured, humorous, sexually adventurous, naturals in the field of equality and simply wonderful women. I also find Czech guys top top blokes to have as friends. If a Czech woman loves you, she will show you that in many wonderful ways. I honestly consider Czechs to be my brothers and sisters. Maybe I've been lucky...but I love them.

Article header should have been the contrary: 10 Lessons Czech Women Can Learn from Western Females

I started reading this post and after the first 5 sentences, I "Czeched out". Totally ridiculous, but one thing is for certain. Westen female mentality will be and is far superior than here in Cz, in all contexts.

lol reading nearly ALL the comments to this article I have to laugh. This over dramatised dis-empowering lengths western women must do to Czech women just so "they" can feel better about themselves is part of what men dislike about western girls. For me its a personality thing. In general Czech women just dont have the "issues" and paranoias western women have. Czech women are more straight forward , if they like you they will talk if they dont they let you know. And as a guy the whole Feminist "chip" western girls have is just boring. Men and Czech women understand that part of being equal is being equally discriminated against. I could go on for hours about why I prefer central euro women than Western. I will say one thing more. Western girls need to stop sugar coating their thoughts, your lives and what you say and just try and be more straight forward. And stop copying Soaps and films like Bridget Jone's diary wallowing in self pity and watching sex in the city wont help you get a man.

After having lived in the Czech Republic for six years as first a teacher, then a student, wife of a Czech and finally a mother, I actually feel sorry for Czech women. In Prague there is a huge epidemic of eating disorders that some Czech men seem to encourage. A large number of Czech women I've met are not strong at all - they are shy, insecure and do whatever they can to tease and please men. Many of them lack self-esteem and their 'icy' demeanor is just a front. With that said, some of the strongest women I've ever met have been Czech - but I always felt they were more of the exception, not the norm. I've also many times wondered in awe at how my Mother-in-law can keep her home so unbelievably clean for her thankless family, but again - the awe was/is deeply surrounded by pity - she is so tired all the time! At the end of the day I think the most important thing for all women is to be true to yourselves.

Western and generally foreign women are far more interesting than the Czech ones imo. They dress better, look better, they behave better (!), it´s more fun being with them and they have sexy accents. So if only there were more foreign women in Prague and pls don´t try to learn from Czechs their ways;-) Prague-born, likely future expat;-)

Lesson #11 I'm an easy pray cause I have a low self-esteem:-) This article reminds me of what planetromance.cz dating agency advertises on their website....The amazing qualities of Czech women...Just sign up and pay us a 'small fee'... Czech women are not as canny as their Russian girlfriends but also not as assertive as 'western women' and they have to put up with macho type Czech men behavior that also have low self-esteem. What's up with that comment that I actually see a lot..."unspoiled by feminism"? Like if it was some kind of a disease? Getting paid less for the same work that men do is still very common in Cz.Rep so women do not have a choice but put up with harassment and hoping that they will be picked up by a Prince on a white horse (preferably a foreigner or you the expat:-) one day and saved in his castle:-) That's still the mentality of Czechs who strongly love fairy tales and live in a fairytale...No but seriously, who wrote this article? I hope not a woman because women fought so much in history (bored middle-class wifes my ass!) for their rights to vote and have an equal treatment in a workplace and actually Czech women are more feminists by that most common and stupid definition then any other western women but unfortunately they don't even know that and most importantly they didn't have much choice to begin with. They are equal in every aspect except the workplace. And because in workplace in the 'western' countries (I hate this outdated division) women are more successful and can get paid more and are respected they of course don't have to be so submissive. When people will finally understand the strengths and weakness in each gender maybe there will be no need for stupid articles where they compare genders, cultures and social lifestyles but instead appreciating and understanding the differences in each and every one of us could be more enlightening. Perhaps knowing the difference between social independence and emotional independence...that these two are not necessarily the same and they don't occur at the same time...

"being black and not ugly " hahah .. must remember that one Lets look at the statistics.. The divorce rate in this country exceeds 50 % ... is that something we can learn from ?

Hmm, dress like a slut, spend my weekends ironing curtains and act in an unfriendly, manner. In.ter.est.ing.

While this article is well meaning, I find it a bit too generalizing. I am a bloke and I have lived in several European countries (including the Czech republic). Being black and not too ugly, I noticed that a lot of these "qualities" supposedly possessed by Czech women did not apply when they related to me or any other bloke in whom they were well interested. Maybe it helped that I was not the pussy whipped, average frustrated chump type who manages to turn a one night stand into a lifetime stand. Czech women are just like any other. I also noticed that in many parts of Continental europe, people tend to be less chatty than the average brit or irish. This holds true from Amsterdam to Brussels and Paris and Goteborg to Prague, Warsaw and Vilnius. Another important point to note is that when you leave Bohemia and go south to Moravia and Silesia, you tend to meet Czech people who are a lot warmer, better travelled and better spoken (english, german, e.t.c) than the average Czech in prague who is trying their best to live up to the "western" values you seem to be running away from. Maybe you should just take the chill pill and be yourself and be grateful for what you have no matter what. By the way, lousy dressing in the name of risky dressing is not a Czech monopoly. Its an eastern european monopoly. My two cents.