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Porozvodové rodičovství v české legislativě

Porozvodové rodičovství v české legislativě

The objective of this publication is to contrast different ways of looking at the reality of parenting and child care after divorce or separation and show how multifaceted this important social phenomenon truly is. The study begins by introducing readers to the subject of post-divorce motherhood and fatherhood, the main problems that men and women are faced with as parents after divorce, and the ways in which divorce, post-divorce parenting, and incomplete families are discussed in public discourse.…

Topics: Care, Family, Sociology of Law

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Mateřství po partnerském rozchodu

Mateřství po partnerském rozchodu

The objective of this publication is to contrast different ways of looking at the reality of parenting and child care after divorce or separation and show how multifaceted this important social phenomenon truly is. The study begins by introducing readers to the subject of post-divorce motherhood and fatherhood, the main problems that men and women are faced with as parents after divorce, and the ways in which divorce, post-divorce parenting, and incomplete families are discussed in public discourse.…

Topics: Care, Parenting, Family, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rozvod a otcovství v České republice

Rozvod a otcovství v České republice

The objective of this publication is to contrast different ways of looking at the reality of parenting and child care after divorce or separation and show how multifaceted this important social phenomenon truly is. The study begins by introducing readers to the subject of post-divorce motherhood and fatherhood, the main problems that men and women are faced with as parents after divorce, and the ways in which divorce, post-divorce parenting, and incomplete families are discussed in public discourse.…

Topics: Care, Parenting, Family, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rozvod a konstrukce "neúplné" rodiny

Rozvod a konstrukce "neúplné" rodiny

The objective of this publication is to contrast different ways of looking at the reality of parenting and child care after divorce or separation and show how multifaceted this important social phenomenon truly is. The study begins by introducing readers to the subject of post-divorce motherhood and fatherhood, the main problems that men and women are faced with as parents after divorce, and the ways in which divorce, post-divorce parenting, and incomplete families are discussed in public discourse.…

Topics: Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Otcové, matky a porozvodová péče o děti

Otcové, matky a porozvodová péče o děti

The objective of this publication is to contrast different ways of looking at the reality of parenting and child care after divorce or separation and show how multifaceted this important social phenomenon truly is. The study begins by introducing readers to the subject of post-divorce motherhood and fatherhood, the main problems that men and women are faced with as parents after divorce, and the ways in which divorce, post-divorce parenting, and incomplete families are discussed in public discourse.…

Topics: Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rodina a rodiny - formy soukromého života v České republice

Rodina a rodiny - formy soukromého života v České republice

This volume looks at the risks affecting the private life of individuals, risks that have been ushered in by changes in the labour market, and it examines whether the shape of the family is changing in the Czech Republic and what groups are most affected by and who most at risk from these changes. The authors also examine the ways in which work life and the private or intimate sphere interact and how individuals cope with the effects of one sphere on the other.…

Topics: Work, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Nové tváře rodiny a nové podmínky pracovního trhu - teoretické souvislosti

Nové tváře rodiny a nové podmínky pracovního trhu - teoretické souvislosti

This volume looks at the risks affecting the private life of individuals, risks that have been ushered in by changes in the labour market, and it examines whether the shape of the family is changing in the Czech Republic and what groups are most affected by and who most at risk from these changes. The authors also examine the ways in which work life and the private or intimate sphere interact and how individuals cope with the effects of one sphere on the other.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Souvislosti proměn pracovního trhu a soukromého, rodinného a partnerského života

Souvislosti proměn pracovního trhu a soukromého, rodinného a partnerského života

This volume looks at the risks affecting the private life of individuals, risks that have been ushered in by changes in the labour market, and it examines whether the shape of the family is changing in the Czech Republic and what groups are most affected by and who most at risk from these changes. The authors also examine the ways in which work life and the private or intimate sphere interact and how individuals cope with the effects of one sphere on the other.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Work, Parenting, Family, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Vliv politik a podmínek pro kombinaci práce a rodiny na aktéry sociálních vztahů

Vliv politik a podmínek pro kombinaci práce a rodiny na aktéry sociálních vztahů

This study analyse the strategies of the different actors involved at various levels of society: families, individuals (women and men), the companies and organisations that use the given policies, and the conditions and opportunities for combining work and family. In part this refers specifically to the individual strategies used to combine work and family commitments by women, who are still considered to be primarily responsible for running the family. Contemporary society views the issue of the relationship …

Topics: Gender, Work, Family, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Kombinace práce a rodiny a sociologická teorie

Kombinace práce a rodiny a sociologická teorie

The chapter offers an overview of different approaches to the problem of harmonization of work and family, going from the U. Beck´s theory of individualization of the society to contemporary feminist theories.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Kombinace pracovního a rodinného života v ČR: politiky, čas, peníze a individuální, rodinné a firemní strategie

Kombinace pracovního a rodinného života v ČR: politiky, čas, peníze a individuální, rodinné a firemní strategie

The new labour market model that evolved in the Czech Republic after 1989 and the family strategiesof women and men are two spheres that interact and overlap at various levels of society and in theindividual strategies of those involved. The changes to the circumstances surrounding labour marketparticipation that resulted from the economic, political and cultural changes in Czech society andthe effects of a global labour market have created a dynamic foundation, which has altered the entireatmosphere of societ…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Diskursy, instituce a praxe péče o děti do tří let ve francouzsko-české komparativní perspektivě

Diskursy, instituce a praxe péče o děti do tří let ve francouzsko-české komparativní perspektivě

The article offers a comparison of the development of institutions of care for children under the age of three in France and in the Czech Republic. It explains the differences in the forms of institutions, policies and the level of statesupport using a comparative analysis of the discourses of childcare that have existed in the two countries since the end of the Second World War. Expert discourses in particular were found to have an important role in the development of institutions and policies: psychological …

Topics: Care, Parenting, Social Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Nastavení sociálních politik, odborný diskurs a "správná" péče o děti - srovnání České republiky a Francie.

Nastavení sociálních politik, odborný diskurs a "správná" péče o děti - srovnání České republiky a Francie.

The article offers a comparison of social policies and institutions of care for children younger three years in the Czech Republic and France. The explanation of the differences is found (among other things) in the different development of expert discourses. The discourse thus impacts strongly on the development of institutions.…

Topics: Care, Parenting, Social Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The Conditions of Parenthood in Organisations: An International Comparison

The paper focuses on organisations and the conditions for working parents in terms of combining work and care and how those conditions are set up and negotiated in organisations. The research draws on three case studies comparing pairs of companies active in the Czech Republic and in one of the following countries – Germany, France, and Sweden – in the field of engineering. The goal is to explore in depth the conditions that Czech working parents are faced with and that derive from the organisational proce…

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The Rise of Lone-Parent Families - Challenging the Norm

The Rise of Lone-Parent Families - Challenging the Norm

The position of Czech institutions towards lone-parenthood changed substantially over the course of last half of the 20th century. The main changes that did take place were at the level of public and professional discourse and at the level of social policies. The chapter describes those changes and analyses the main difficulties that one-parent families in Czech Republic faced during this period.…

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život: nová rizika a šance

Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život: nová rizika a šance

The chapter is resuming the findings of ten qualitative studies of specific occupations and social groups. It concentrates mainly on two phenomenons that characterise contemporary labour markets: the increasing flexibility of work conditions and labour markets, and the marginalisation of specific groups on the labour market. On the studied cases it shows their forms and prevalence in the Czech Republic. …

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Manažeři: vlajkonoši individualizace?

Manažeři: vlajkonoši individualizace?

The chapter is based on a qualitative study of men in managerial positions and on quantitative data from representative survey Changes 2005. Instead of being a typical exemple of individualised living modus as we ecpected, men managers represent a position in-between the feudal and the modern worls. In order to be able to perform their occupation they need a person who will offfer them the full home service and will minimalise her participation in the public sphere.…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Nová rizika pracovního trhu: flexibilita a marginalizace

Nová rizika pracovního trhu: flexibilita a marginalizace

The chapter is dealing with two phenomenons that characterise contemporary labour markets: the increasing flexibility of work conditions and labour markets, and the marginalisation of specific groups on the labour market. It analyses theoreticaly those phenomenons and reflects its prevalence in the Czech Republic. …

Topics: Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Nové šance a rizika. Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život u vybraných povolání a sociálních skupin

Nové šance a rizika. Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život u vybraných povolání a sociálních skupin

The book presents the findings of ten qualitative studies of specific occupations and social groups. It concentrates mainly on two phenomena that characterise contemporary labour markets: the increasing flexibility of work conditions and labour markets, and the marginalisation of specific groups on the labour market. On the studied cases it shows their forms and prevalence in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Sexualizovaná realita organizací: dvojí perspektiva

Sexualizovaná realita organizací: dvojí perspektiva

The chapter shows the results of a qualitative research of sexual harassment in the workplace. It is based partly on six case studies – biographic narrations of victims, and partly on fifteen semi-standardized interviews with Human Resources managers of different Czech organizations.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Sexuality

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Otcovství v pohybu

Otcovství v pohybu

The father status and the father role have during last 100 years undergone dramatical changes. The article presents some contemporary theories explaining those changes and ilustrates them on the example of a qualitative study of fatherhood after marital separation.  …

Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Interrupce v České republice: zápas o ženská těla

Interrupce v České republice: zápas o ženská těla

The book deals with the development of politics of abortion in the Czech Republic since 1957. Based on the research of discourses and institutions of abortion it develops the aproach of discursive institutionalism. The politics of abortion are analysed as specific socialist governmentalities, existing during the communist regime.…

Topics: Gender, Family, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Otcovství po rozchodu rodičovského páru

Otcovství po rozchodu rodičovského páru

The book presents a theoretical study and an original qualitative empirical study of fatherhood after divorce or separation. A total of 35 interviews were conducted with men with various social and educational backgrounds. It shows how contemporary fathers select between different repertoires of fatherhood and how they interpret them, and in this way they construct their own personal paternal role.…

Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Promarněná šance na změnu: zhodnocení reformy rodičovského příspěvku

Promarněná šance na změnu: zhodnocení reformy rodičovského příspěvku

The article analyses the shape and the impacts of the reform of parental allowance in the CR in 2008. It shows that the reform will lead to increasing of social inequalities and will disadvantage certain groups of population, for. ex. lone mothers. …

Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Práce a péče. Proměny "rodičovské" v České republice a kontext rodinné politiky Evropské unie

Práce a péče. Proměny "rodičovské" v České republice a kontext rodinné politiky Evropské unie

The book examines legislative and institutional framings of childcare and its gendered impacts in the Czech Republic in the context of current policies of care in other European countries. The aim is to introduce results of analyses of empirical data on childcare to public debates and to point on several conceptual mistakes in current policy of care in the Czech Republic. …

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Parenting, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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