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The Political Space for Women´s Agency in the Framework of EU Eastern Enlargement
The article deals with the phenomenon of the sexual harassment in the working place in the Czech Republic. The authors analyze sexual harassment as one of effects of men’s symbolic power over women causing cultural misrecognition of women and at the same time as one of factors supporting economic inequality between men and women in western societies. They apply the two-dimensional theory of justice by Nancy Fraser and argue that the existence of sexual harassment confirms Fraser’s notion of gender as bival…
Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Social Inequalities
Genderové bariéry: příklad sexuálního obtěžování
The article deals with the phenomenon of the sexual harassment in the working place in the Czech Republic. From the theoretical perspective it views sexual harassment as one of effects of men’s symbolic power over women causing cultural misrecognition of women and at the same time as one of factors supporting economic inequality between men and women in western societies. Furthermore, it is based on the research on incidence and forms of the sexual harassment in the population of the Czech Republic which was…
Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Social Inequalities
Partneři v životě, partneři v podnikání - genderové vztahy v řízení firmy
The study focuses on the motivations for going into business, which proved to be significantly differentiated according to gender, with women citing the possibilities for combining work and family responsibilities as one of the main motivations for going into business. Conversely, businessmen make a clear separation between their professional and family lives, and for them business is almost exclusively a means for their own professional development.The study revealed that the structure of company management, …
Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Work
Leaving Berkeley after 35 years: An Interview with Arlie Hochschild
In May 2006 I was working on a research project at Berkeley. There I met Arlie Hochschild, whose formal academic career as a professor of sociology at Berkely University for the past 35 years was about to end. I had the opportunity to visit one of her classes and discuss research methodology and ways of writing up results. We also spoke about the differences between American and Czech gender regimes. At that time I got the idea of asking Arlie if she would do an interview for this journal, and she agreed. A…
Topics: Gender, Work, Lifestyle
Proč ženy berou méně za stejnou práci?
Statistická analýza individuálních dat v časové řadě (1998 – 2004) jednak ukázala, že existuje významný mzdový rozdíl i mezi ženami a muži na stejné pozici v jedné firmě, který nelze vysvětlit dostupnými osobními nebo strukturálními charakteristikami a jednak, že nedošlo k výrazné změně mzdových rozdílů mezi muži a ženami v období významných legislativních změn ve směru k odstranění nerovností v odměňování ani v několika letech následujících po těchto zm…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work
K čemu je dobrá vyšší mateřská pro ženy s vyššími příjmy a co neřeší?
S novelou zákona o nemocenském pojištění, která začne platit od 1.1.2009, dochází i ke změně resp. ke zvýšení redukčních hranic pro výpočet výše peněžité pomoci v mateřství. Nově jsou podobně jako u výpočtu dávek nemocenského pojištění stanoveny namísto dvou tři redukční hranice, z nichž se vypočítává měsíční částka peněžité pomoci v mateřství (mateřský příspěvek). Je to jistě dobrá zpráva pro ženy, které plánují narození dítěte. Ne v…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting
Pracovní versus soukromý život
Topics: Work, Family
Konference Community, work and family
Topics: Work, Family, Lifestyle
Úvodem: Kombinace soukromého a pracovního života - důležité téma politické debaty demokratických společností
Private is political is not only a purely sociological issue on the theoretical and research level, but also an up to date policy on the European level. This issue of the Czech Sociological Review represents some of the growing variety of issues studied in the area of work/life balance. …
Topics: Work, Lifestyle
The Division of Labour in Czech Hoseholds in the 1990s
Topics: Gender
Kariérní vzorce žen v managementu. Strategie žen v rámci genderového režimu organizace
In the article, issues relating to the socio-political measures aimed at increasing flexibility in managing the relationship between the spheres of work and family on the individual level of life strategies are examined within the framework of the gender theories of organisation. The environment of management is described as a gender regime in which an organisational masculinity functions. On the basis of a case study of the life strategies of women in managerial positions and other results drawn from research…
Topics: Gender, Work, Social Policy
Entre transition et stéréotypes de genre : les femmes tchèques sur le marché du travail
This article sets out to show how the position of women in the labour market, and the individual factors that influence their position, have changed over the course of the transformation of Czech society in the 1990s. The main factors affecting the position of Czech women in the labour market are economic reform and various aspects associated with the reform process, particularly the neglect to implement practical solutions to economic and gender inequalities, the state´s social policy, which throughout the 1…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work
Nezájem pověřených. Přístup českých politiků a političek, úředníků a úřednic k otázkám genderové rovnosti
The aim of this text is to reveal the position of the Czech government and government officials who were responsible for gender and equality issues during the preparation for the Czech Republic’s accession to the EU. Based on this insight I argue that it was the government’s approach to the introduction of legislation on gender equality and on addressing gender discrimination and inequality in Czech society that contributed most to the fact that the new legislation does not work in practice, that no positi…
Topics: Elites, Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes
Nepříliš harmonická realita. Rodičovské kombinace práce a péče v mezích genderové struktury současné české společnosti
Based on the contemporary gender theories of work/life balance this article aims to move the debate in the Czech sociology towards more detailed conceptualization of this issue and broader understanding of the research results in the context of the development of the Czech society. The analysis stems from the representative research of the Czech parents and their strategies of work/life balance. The author shows how unfriendly the Czech labour market is and that in these conditions Czech parents create strateg…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Lifestyle
Genderové nerovnosti v odměňování na stejné pracovní pozici: sociální vyloučení žen
Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic in the years 1998, 2002, and 2004, we examine whether the introduction of legislative measures for gender equality connected with the accession to the European Union had significant effects on gender wage gaps. The central conclusion of our analysis is that within-job wage discrimination is a significant factor in the Czech labor market and that there were no substantive changes during the period studied. Women doing the same job in the same company earn about 10 p…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work
The Legacy of Equality and the Weakness of Law: Within-job Gender Wage Inequality in the Czech Republic
Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic in the years 1998, 2002, and 2004, we examine whether the introduction of legislative measures for gender equality connected with the accession to the European Union had a significant effect on gender wage inequality. The central conclusion of our analysis is that within-job wage inequality plays a significant role in the Czech labour market, and that there were no substantive changes during the period studied. Czech women doing the same jo…
Topics: Gender, Work
Flexibilní pracovní režimy jako nástroj kombinace pracovního a rodinného života
In this article we analyze to which extend the flexible working-time arrangements help to combine the caring and working responsibilities and what the consequences of the use of such arrangements in the corporate environment. The case study describes the individual experiences of mothers with dependent children with the flexible working arrangements in one international food company. On the sample of semi structured interweaves, we demonstrate the status of these women within the corporate structure. It is app…
Topics: Gender, Work, Lifestyle
Odraz nejistot, znevýhodnění a marginalizace na trhu práce v biografických výpovědích žen s nízkým vzděláním
The paper addresses the specific conditions of unskilled women, struggling to integrate their paid work and unpaid work in the Czech Republic. The analysis is based on three biographic interviews regarding the work trajectories of women whose highest level of education is vocational or lower. The employees with the lower levels of human and social capital occupy marginalized positions in the labour market. These people, including mothers in child care, find it difficult to cope with the increasing pressure for…
Topics: Gender, Work
Enakost spolov na trgih delovne sile v Republiki Češki, na Madžarskem in v Sloveniji v obdobju gospodarske tranzicije in pristopa k Evropski uniji
In this article we compare the three post-socialist countries during the period of economic transition and accession to the EU (2000-2005) from the standpoint of gender equality in the labour market. We assume that the position of men and women in labour markets is influenced by three interrelated factors that differ in the three countries: 1. the situation in the labour market 2. mechanisms for the reconciliation of work and the family and 3. changes in the institutional and legislative framework and employme…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work
Možnosti skloubení práce a rodiny v životě žen
Postavení českých žen na trhu práce, ženy v řídících pozicích a vztah rodiny a práce v jejich životě jsou hlavní témata tohoto dvojčísla čtvrtletníku Gender – rovné příležitosti – výzkum. Problematika genderových nerovností na trhu práce je nejen aktuální z hlediska projektů aktuálně řešených v týmu Gender & sociologie, ale i jako jedna z kapitol, které je třeba v současné české společnosti řešit a diskutovat i v rámci vstupu České republiky do Evropské un…
Topics: Gender, Work, Family
Pracovní a rodinné role žen z pohledu dvou generací
Klíčová slova: genderové role, kombinace práce a rodiny, vysokoškoláci …
Topics: Gender, Work, Family
Diskurz spravedlnosti mezi aktivismem a vědou
The authors of the article argue against the article by Martin Hájek, Jiří Kabele a Kateřina Vojtíšková „Zázemí“ a „bojiště“ v usilování o spravedlnost: textová analýza odborářské, feministické a lidskoprávní mediální komunikace. The contestation concerns mainly the construction of the feminist justice discourse for purposes of quantitative text analysis and its one-sided interpretation. …
Topics: Gender
Srovnání podmínek rodičovství v podnicích ve čtyřech evropských zemích (závěry)
The chapter raises parallels between the countries in the study and the dynamics of organisational processes in those countries – CR, Germany, France and Sweden. The substantial differences between the employee policy of companies in their home countries and in the Czech branches derive partly from the differences in the family and employment policies in different countries, the gender structure of related institutions at various levels in different countries and within the field the enterprise operates in, …
Topics: Care, Work, Parenting, Family
Teoretická východiska výzkumu podmínek rodičovství v podnikovém prostředí a podniková praxe v Čechách
The Chapter presents a theoretical introduction to the sociology of organisations through the lens of the sociology of gender, and shows how the under-developed research on gender processes at the company level is linked to the survival of organisational structures that emerged alongside modernisation and is based on a rationalised principle of patriarchy. Contemporary organisations and companies have only slowly and reluctantly begun to face the fact that their employees – both men and women – have privat…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting
Podmínky rodičovství v podnikovém prostředí v mezinárodním srovnání
This study looks at the problem of work-life balance at the employee level and at the mechanisms for negotiating policies for working parents directly at the workplace. The research was based on three case studies of engineering companies, comparing the parent companies in Germany, France, and Sweden with their branches in the Czech Republic.…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family
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