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Women in management of small enterprises: Co-inspiration between social and conventional enterprises to promote equal access to decision-making positions in six European countries

 The comparative study focused on the access of women to the decision-making positions in the corporate sector that represents the problem almost in all European countries. To understand the situation in small companies, in 2014, we conducted a qualitative research study on opportunities and barriers for women in management of small conventional and social enterprises in six countries (i.e. Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, Finland and Italy). This European comparative study has shown how the various measu…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Gender balance power map

The qualitative study is focused on the issue of equal access of women (and men) into managerial and decision-making positions in a social enterprise and conventional one in the Czech Republic. The results of the study reflect a lack of focus on gender equality, low sensitivity to gender based discrimination, recurrence of gender stereotypes and the lack of internal policies (formal procedures) to promote women in leadership positions in the surveyed firms.…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

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Gender a rovnováha moci

The qualitative study is focused on the issue of equal access of women (and men) into managerial and decision-making positions in a social enterprise and conventional one in the Czech Republic. The results of the study reflect a lack of focus on gender equality, low sensitivity to gender based discrimination, recurrence of gender stereotypes and the lack of internal policies (formal procedures) to promote women in leadership positions in the surveyed firms.…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Sólo pro soprán: O ženách v české politice

Sólo pro soprán: O ženách v české politice

Kniha přispívá k diskusi o podmínkách a okolnostech politické participace žen v ČR. Vychází z aktuálních dat kvantitativní i kvalitativní povahy. Představuje teoretické přístupy k uchopení problematiky žen v politice, zaměřuje se na zastoupení žen v politice v českém kontextu a na jeho vývoj, na názory a postoje české veřejnosti na ženy v politice a nástroje jejich podpory a věnuje se také životním a pracovním drahám vrcholových političek. Analytickou část knih…

Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Workshop 3: Podpora žen ve vedení firem a organizací. Možnosti a opatření na podporu žen v kariérním růstu

Third workshop: 8 October 2015, mix of social enterprises, conventional enterprises, NGOs and public serviceThe third workshop was called ‘Support for women in the management of organisations: Possibilities and measures to foster women’s career development’. In the first part, the research team presented the most important results of the Czech national study, as well as a summary of the good practices from workshops 1 and 2. In the second part, the focus was on the career development of women and on meas…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Workshop 2: Vstřícné pracovní podmínky v sociálním podnikání

Second workshop: 10 September 2015, social enterprisesThe second workshop was entitled, ‘Friendly working conditions in social entrepreneurship: How to effectively develop and use the potential of employees with different kinds of disabilities?’. In the first part of the workshop, the participants discussed the advantages and disadvantages of diversity teams. An important advantage mentioned was the opportunity for personal development (e.g. learning to be patient, respecting the needs of others), whereas …

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Workshop 1: Co stojí v cestě kariérnímu růstu?

První workshop: 8. září 2015, konvenční podnikyPrvní workshop byl zaměřený na konvenční podnikání a nesl název „Co stojí v cestě kariérnímu růstu? Jak efektivně rozvíjet potenciál zaměstnanců a zaměstnankyň v malých podnicích?“ Cílem workshopu bylo pojednat o a) metodách, jakými zaměstnavatelé/lky zapojují ženy do vedení, b) zkušenostech žen v rozhodovacích pozicích a c) způsobech, jak posílit rovné podmínky a rovné zacházení na pracovišti. Na začátku akce…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Gender a rovnováha moci

In the Czech Republic, women are severely under-represented in decision-making positions. Women make up only 26% of legislators, senior officials and managers, and only 3% of employed women are employed in management positions. These figures have not changed significantly over time. Gender equality infrastructure is almost wholly limited to the central level (Government and Ministries) in the Czech Republic. In the Czech Republic there is currently no legislation or policy aimed at achieving a gender bala…

Topics: Gender, Work, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Vlastní cestou? Životní dráhy v pozdně moderní společnosti

Vlastní cestou? Životní dráhy v pozdně moderní společnosti

The book is innovative in applying both, quantitative and qualitative life-course research methodology. The authors analyse the transformation of partner and family arrangements and identify problems connected with achieving a work-life balance in Czech society. The book explains how the processes of individualisation, gender-conventional refamilialisation, and globalisation (including the socially stratified effects of the economic crisis) contribute to the increasing social stratification of life courses.…

Topics: Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Care, Parenting, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Živitelé a živitelky: reflexe (a) praxe

Živitelé a živitelky: reflexe (a) praxe

The publication is focused on understanding the construction of lay knowledge as concerns the phenomenon of breadwinning. Authors attempt to uncover the formation of breadwinning according to its various types and models so that it would be possible to observe the mechanisms behind the re/production, and legitimisation of social and gender inequalities in the family and the associated power relations. Authors use an analysis of 61 semi-structured interviews with parents from 26 families.…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Care, Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Genderovanost univerzitního bádání v kontextu Slovenska

Genderovanost univerzitního bádání v kontextu Slovenska

The publication deals on the re/production of gender inequalities in the university environment in Slovakia except Bratislava – the Slovak capital. It is focused on the inequalities during the study, making career as well as management of science, etc. …

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Otcové a otcovství

Topics: Parenting

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Department: Gender & Sociology

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Postavení muže v rodině

Topics: Gender, Family

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Co-providing in post-divorce families with joint child custody: parental practices and the construction of gender roles

This paper focuses on the practices and the construction of provider and carer roles in families after divorce or separation in which the parental couple has joint physical child ustody, examining the issue from the perspective of gender equality and thepower inequalities.…

Topics: Gender, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Parents and their caring choices in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: The influence of policies or cultural beliefs?

This paper contributes to the debate on the relative impact of institutions or cultural values by analyzing parental attitudes to childcare, i.e. by focusing on the micro level of decisions in families instead of the macro level of political decisions andmeasures regarding childcare. Paper is based on analysis of 40 semi-structured interviews done in Prague and Bratislava withparents having a child in the first class of elementary school.…

Topics: Care, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Gender & Sociology

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