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Životní strategie podnikatelek a podnikatelů na přelomu tisíciletí
Study is based on the sociology of family, the sociology of work and the sociology of organisation and management, combining these fields from the perspective of the sociology of gender. It focuses on the motivations for going into business, the structure of company management, from the perspective of gender and of the particular line of business, and its influence on distribution of work and responsibilities between partners and on methods whereby this distribution is reasoned and arranged.…
Topics: Gender, Work, Family, Lifestyle
Pracovnice, manažerky, podnikatelky: kombinace pracovního a rodinného života
The study is a sociological comparison of the work/life strategie of different cathegories of women based on thein work positron and family situation in the czech society dutiny the last 15 years. On one side gender inequalities and discrimination of women on the kanout market ar directly related to the work/life balance issue apriori defined as „women´s problem“ and on the other side the need or strategy of work/life balance is not the only one basis of the unequal treatment of women on the labour market…
Topics: Gender, Work, Family
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
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
Organizace a zvládání pracovního a rodinného života současných rodičů
This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family
Pracovní a rodinné role a jejich kombinace v životě českých rodičů: plány versus realita
This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…
Topics: Gender, Work, Family
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
Rodiče na trhu práce: mezi prací a péčí
Autorky v článku mapují teoretické argumenty genderové dimenze sociálního státu. Navrhují tři integrální dimenze konceptualizace rodičovství v české společnosti a na trhu práce: 1) právo být rodičem a právo pracovat, 2) rovnost či nediskriminaci v rodičovství, 3) příležitost dosáhnout kombinace pracovního a soukromého života. In this article the authors map the theoretical arguments on the gender dimension of the welfare state. They propose three integral dimensions of conceptu…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Care, Work, Social Inequalities
Příčiny a důsledky segregace - úvod do genderové perspektivy v sociologii
This publication presents a quantitative look at the issue of gender segregation – a statistical image – and a qualitative image of the social reality of women’s labour as portrayed in contemporary Czech television serials. The analysis showed that the Czech labour market continues to be and has long been heavily segregated and the degree of segregation is only decreasing very slowly. The interconnected gender system of prestige, segregation, wage differences between men and women, and the aspects and co…
Topics: Gender, Work, Public Policy
Genderová segregace trhu práce - obraz statistiky
This publication presents a quantitative look at the issue of gender segregation – a statistical image – and a qualitative image of the social reality of women’s labour as portrayed in contemporary Czech television serials. The analysis showed that the Czech labour market continues to be and has long been heavily segregated and the degree of segregation is only decreasing very slowly. The interconnected gender system of prestige, segregation, wage differences between men and women, and the aspects and co…
Topics: Gender, Work
Genderová segregace českého trhu práce. Kvantitativní a kvalitativní obraz
This publication presents a quantitative look at the issue of gender segregation – a statistical image – and a qualitative image of the social reality of women’s labour as portrayed in contemporary Czech television serials. The analysis showed that the Czech labour market continues to be and has long been heavily segregated and the degree of segregation is only decreasing very slowly. The interconnected gender system of prestige, segregation, wage differences between men and women, and the aspects and co…
Topics: Gender, Media, Work
Rozhodčí a hráči: Vliv socio-ekonomické transformace a evropské integrace na ženské občanské skupiny
The authors analyze the impact of women’s civic organizations and groups on promotion of gender equality in the era of socio-economic transformation and the EU eastern enlargement period. They also analyze what was the role of those processes on women’s groups and NGOs in the Czech Republic.…
Topics: European Union, Gender, Civil Society, Transformation
Mnohohlasem: Editorský úvod
For its strong informative value and its description of the multifarious activities of pro-women and feminist groups the publication In Multiple Voices (Mnohohlasem) will certainly be welcome reading among the academic, political and activist communities. The book shows that what lies behind the apparent lack of interest among Czech women in feminism is their rejection of the discriminatory “label” from its opponents. “One who names is in a position of superiority to what is named” (I. Noble), and ther…
Topics: Gender, Media, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation
Mnohohlasem. Vyjednávání ženských prostorů po roce 1989
For its strong informative value and its description of the multifarious activities of pro-women and feminist groups the publication In Multiple Voices (Mnohohlasem) will certainly be welcome reading among the academic, political and activist communities. The book shows that what lies behind the apparent lack of interest among Czech women in feminism is their rejection of the discriminatory “label” from its opponents. “One who names is in a position of superiority to what is named” (I. Noble), and ther…
Topics: European Union, Gender, Media, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation, Public Policy
The Labour Market and Work-Life Balance in the Czech Republic in Historical Perspective
The chapter is focused on the development of the position of women in the labour market and on the development of the conditions for work-life balance in the workplace historically from the 1950s to the present. We argue that the high employment of women does not automatically imply women’s emancipation and fulfilment of their rights as citizens in a society based on a gender contract with the gendered arrangements of work and care as conflicting spheres. This chapter is based on the study of historical stat…
Topics: Gender, Work, Family
Co ještě není a co už je? Sexuální obtěžování v současných podmínkách pracovního trhu
Sexual harassment in the workplace is an important issue not just in terms of the seriousness of cases but also in terms of the frequency of incidence and the inadequacy of recourse options. In the cases of sexual harassment the majority of the victims are women, and the majority of the initiators or culprits are men. An alarming fact is that in one-fifth of cases the initiator of more serious forms of sexual harassment (non-verbal assaults, or explicit sexual overtures and assaults) is the woman’s boss. In …
Topics: Gender, Work, Sexuality
Sexualizovaná realita pracovních vztahů. Analýza sexuálního obtěžování v České republice
The book The Sexualised Reality of Labour Relations (Sexualizovaná realita pracovních vztahů) is the outcome of a sociological study of gender harassment and sexual harassment that was conducted by the Gender & Sociology Department at the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The authors present both the theoretical foundations of the study and the analyses that were made within the framework of individual studies aimed at specific types of actors: male and female employers as a…
Topics: Gender, Work, Sexuality
Životní strategie žen a mužů v řízení (a) podnikání
In this study the author examined the motivations for starting up a business and the life strategies for work and family balance in small and mid-sized entrepreneurship by men and women who started up independent businesses in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, and I situated the research in the context of the gender structure of Czech society. …
Topics: Gender, Work, Family
Kdo se bojí zaměstnané matky?
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 indicators of gender inequalities. The aim of the second part of the paper is to answer the question about who is afraid of working mother. …
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting
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
Pracovní dráhy žen v České republice
In the background of the historical development of Czech society in the context of theoretical approaches to the study of feminist sociology of work and family we analyze biographical interviews with women of different age groups in different stages of family cycle and in different situations on the labor market. The book also specifically focuses on cross-cutting theme of the continuing practice of discrimination against women in the labor market, along with the theme of different options for combining work a…
Topics: Gender, Identity, Work
I would take any job, but…: Biographies of low-educated women at the intersection of class and gender
I Would Take any Job, but…: Biographies of Low-Educated Women at the Intersection of Class and Gender. The paper analyses the biographies of women at the intersection of class and gender in the Czech Republic. With the transition towards a market-based economy and a decrease in the symbolic capital of workers in the blue-collar and service fields, and in the context of a familialist social policy and a labour market that discourages a combination of paid employment and care responsibilities, women with low e…
Topics: Gender, Work
A munkaerő-piaci politika hatása a nemek közötti egyenlőségre a gazdasági átalakulás és az EU-csatlakozás időszakában: Csehország, Magyarország és Szlovénia összehasonlítása
Tanulmányunkban három ország (Csehország, Magyarország és Szlovénia) esetén keresztül vizsgáljuk a poszt-szocialista országok közötti hasonlóságokat és különbségeket a rendszerváltás utáni időszakban, de főleg az EU-csatlakozás idején (2000–2005) a nemek és munkaerőpiac szempontjából. Azt állítjuk, hogy a piacgazdaságra való átállás idején és az azt követő időszakban a nemi szerepekkel kapcsolatos attitűdök egyre konzervatívabbakká váltak mind a magán-, mind a …
Topics: Gender
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