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The Divisions of Labour and Responsibilities in Business and Home among Women and Men Copreneurs in the Czech Republic

The Divisions of Labour and Responsibilities in Business and Home among Women and Men Copreneurs in the Czech Republic

Our chapter focuses on an underrepresented topic in entrepreneurial research: small businesses owned and operated by copreneurs. We examine the divisions of labour and responsibilities in the business and family lives of copreneurs in today's Czech Republic (CR). Copreneurs are romantic couples who own and operate small businesses together. Copreneurs provide a good point for unpacking the interplay among business, family life, and gender. We analyse interview narratives from 12 CR copreneur couples wherein ea…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

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Genderové inovace v malém podnikání. Strategie kombinace práce a rodiny v podnikatelských párech

Genderové inovace v malém podnikání. Strategie kombinace práce a rodiny v podnikatelských párech

Using the so-called embeddedness perspective, this article highlights the importance of context (time, space and institutions) for the direction of current research on the gender structure of entrepreneurship. The authors focus mainly on the effects of institutional context, namely tax and family policies, on business couples (copreneurs). The emphasis is on how these factors and formal institutions, which are reflected in informal gender norms, influence the work-life balance strategies of copreneurs. Based o…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

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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 education find themselves in the secondary labour market and exposed to gender discrimination. We illustra…

Topics: Gender, Identity, Work, Social Policy, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

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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Souvislosti a změny genderových diferencí v české společnosti v 90. letech.

The publication presents a sociological view of the conditions under whichthe transformation of gender relationships has taken place in the CzechRepublic in the Nineties. It focuses not only on the existing arrangementof the position of men and women in society but covers a wider spectrum of issues pertaining to the long-term affect of cultural and social mechanisms condition the nature of potential changes and developments. The study alsocontains a significant up-to-date analysis of comparable trends in the E…

Topics: Gender, Historical Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Podmínky harmonizace práce a rodiny v ČR

Podmínky harmonizace práce a rodiny v ČR

Topics: Work, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Identifying Barriers to Women´s Participation

Research report presents analysis on barriers for women’s political participation in the Czech Republic, shows positive examples of actions strengthening women’s political participation and concludes with recommendations for increase of women’s politicalparticipation in the country. …

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Proč také naše společnost potřebuje antidiskriminační zákon. Havelková, B. 2007

This review of the book of Barbara Havelkova is positively evaluating the complexity and exactness of the approach used to explain the issue of gender pay inequalities between women and men in the context of absence of the anti-discrimination law in the Czech Republic. Barbara Havelková puts the issue into context with the European law, theories of gender inequalities and statistical indicators.…

Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities, Social Policy

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

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