Market Model of Care and Transnational Care Practices

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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
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Cash for Care as Special Money: The Meaning and Uses of the Care Allowance in Close Relationships in the Czech Republic

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Authors: Dudová, Radka
Investigating what happens when money in the form of a cash-for-care benefit enters family relationships, this article examines long-term family care in the Czech Republic where a “care allowance” was introduced in 2007. It compares two qualitative studies: one of adult children...
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Social Citizenship and Care in Czech Society

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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Zuzana Uhde (eds.)
The authors argue that the recognition of care and carers in society requires rethinking of the citizenship paradigm focused on paid work and ideal of the independent individual. The obstacles for gender equity are addressed by examining the social organisation of childcare as a...
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Mothers or Institutions? How Women Work and Care in Slovenia and the Czech Republic

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Authors: Formánková, Lenka, Dobrotić, Ivana
This article considers women’s and men’s roles in the labour market and the different ways in which care-work is shared inSlovenia and the Czech Republic. Effective policy measures can prevent parenting of young children be...
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Access to health and long-term care. Equal for women?

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Authors: Křížková, Alena
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The framing of care claims by Czech women´s groups in a post-socialist context

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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Uhde, Zuzana, Pulkrábková, Kateřina
Authors employ frame analysis to explain how feminist organizations, gender-conservative women’s orgs., migrant-oriented orgs. and Roma women’s groups in the Czech Republic frame their care claims. They identify five interpretative frames (gen...
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Gender (In)Equalities in Employment and Care in the Czech Republic during the EU Accession and EU Membership

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Authors: Křížková, Alena, Hašková, Hana
The focus in the following article lies on the interconnection between employment and care in the Czech Republic. To begin with we present the institutional framework for gender equality that has been introduced in ...
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Work and Care in the Life Course of Working Mothers: Different Breadwinning Contexts

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Authors: Maříková, Hana
The paper explores the construction of work and care in various contexts of breadwinning in the Czech Republic. It looks into what importance mothers of small children attribute to work and care in various...
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Review [Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the “Gypsy Question” in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956. By Eszter Varsa. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021.]

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Authors: Hašková Hana
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Virginia Held: The Ethics of Care. Personal, Political, and Global

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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
The review of the book The Ethics of Care. Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia Held. 
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Doing gender and age: The case of informal elderly care in the Czech Republic

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Authors: Dudová Radka
This article seeks to describe and explain some of the factors behind the prevalence of women in informal care for seniors. It presents a qualitative study of women who are caring for a frail elderly parent in the Czech Re-public. Care is seen as a space where gender and other in...
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From women’s struggles to distorted emancipation: The interplay of care practices and global capitalism

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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
This article develops a critical analysis of transformations of the idea and practice of women’s emancipation in late-modern Western society under the influence of globalizing advanced capitalism. It builds on analyses of feminist critical theory and critical globalization studie...
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The political economy of translocal social reproduction: cross-border care mobility in the Czech Republic

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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana, Ezzeddine, Petra
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Precarious work and care responsibilities in the economic crisis

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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Dudová, Radka
Economic transformation after 1989 and the global economic recession that began in 2008 have caused an increase in precarious work in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. As a result of refamilialization, precarious work acquired a specific form for women. We use the Czec...
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Social bias within the institution of hired domestic care: global interactions and migration

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Authors: Uhde, Z.
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Precarious work and care responsibilities in the economic crisis

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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Dudová, Radka
Economic transformation after 1989 and the global economic recession that began in 2008 have caused an increase in precarious work in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. As a result of refamilialization, precarious work acquired a specific form for women. We use the Czec...
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Caring Revolutionary Transformation: Combined Effects of a Universal Basic Income and a Public Model of Care

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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
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Rodičovská (je) pro oba rodiče!

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Authors: Maříková, Hana
The chapter deals with the degradation of parental leave if taken as „vacation“ and the neglected role of fathers in upbringing and caring for young children. 
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Rozdíl v odměňování žen a mužů a rodičovství. [The gender pay gap and parenthood.]

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Authors: Křížková, Alena - Pospíšilová, Kristýna - Marková Volejníčková, Romana - Maříková, Hana
ČR vykazuje dlouhodobě jeden z nejvyšších rozdílů v průměrných mzdách mužů a žen (GPG) v rámci EU. Za příčinu vy-sokého GPG bývá v ČR často považována rozdílná úroveň vzdělání anebo segregace do kategorií zaměstnání. Segrega-ce do kategorií zaměstnání nicméně vysvětluje pouze asi...
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Kdo se bojí zaměstnané matky?

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Authors: Křížková, Alena, Marta Vohlídalová
The paper focus on the position of women with children on the Czech labour market and the role of social policy. It deals with their working conditions, discriminations and the conditions for work and family reconciliation. The first part of the paper concerns the basic indicator...
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