Jindřiška Flajšhansová

Jindřiška Flajšhansová (4 September 1868 – 30 May 1931) was a Czech teacher, editor, and women's rights activist. Trained as a teacher, when she married, Flajšhansová was forced to give up the profession. She turned her attention to the issues of disability and women's concerns. Becoming an advocate for people with sight difficulties, she supported the use of braille and edited the Czech Blind Press. From 1910, she served as the head of the Czech Women's Industrial Association until 1931 and the primary editor of Ženské listy from 1912 until it folded in 1926. She was instrumental in the erection of a monument in Charles Square to honour Eliška Krásnohorská, who founded the first girls' gymnasium in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.