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Gender Inequalities in Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Times of Crisis
The policy brief “Gender Inequalities in Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Times of Crisis” provides an overview of the key barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic and presents recommendations for creating a more gender-equal business environment. It builds on a participatory workshop organized by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences within the Gendered Innovation Living Labs (GILL)project, which brought together …
Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship
Gendered Barriers and Opportunities in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Understanding the gendered barriers and opportunities to entrepreneurship and innovation is crucial to developing effective solutions and strategies to overcome existing barriers. The theory of gendered innovation and the three strategic approaches to gender equality are used to investigate gendered barriers, opportunities and good practices for gender equality in entrepreneurship and innovation in EU countries. A total of 36 semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed in 10 European countries with …
Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship
Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs in Times of Crisis and Tools for Overcoming Them
Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly impacted women entrepreneurs. Policies designed to support entrepreneurs have often followed a one-size-fits-all approach, overlooking men's and women's unique needs and unequal access to state support. Recognizing these gender disparities, our analysis centres on the perspectives of policy-makers (both during and beyond the pandemic) as well as on the experiences of those the policies aim to support. The study is based on 17 in-depth, semi-structured interv…
Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship
Sources of sex-disaggregated data
The collection and analysis of information and data on an area or issue should always be categorized by gender. This is because it allows important inequalities and gender differences to be identified. This document presents several examples of data sources (CSO, MIT, EIGE, Eurostat and OECD) that can be used to map the position of women and men (not only) in the field of entrepreneurship and to identify relevant types of support for women entrepreneurs. For each example data source, the characteristics of the…
Topics: Gender, Sociological Data
Role of Actors in the Processes of Sustainable Development at Local Level—Experiences From the Czech Republic.
In this text we are interested in the preconditions for, and opportunities provided by sustainable development at local level in non-metropolitan areas, i. e., in rural areas and villages. These areas are generally seen as having an important role in achieving sustainability. The literature review highlights the general principles of endogenous development with an emphasis on local resources including human potential and social capital, and the Czech context. In practice, the empowerment and cooperation of reg…
New Technologies, Older Workers in Banking and Nursing
The article examines how technological change and organisational restructuring interacts with population ageing and policies that extend working life, and how older workers understand these trends. Using organisational and contextual approaches and qualitative research on nurses and bankers in Czechia, we investigate older workers' experiences with digitalisation. The age disadvantage older workers experience in digitalising workplaces is produced by three processes: responsibilisation, production of insecurit…
Topics: Digitalization, Gender, Technology and society, Age and Aging
Sources of sex disaggregated data + practical examples
Topics: Gender, Sociological Data
Sources of sex disaggregated data
Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship, Sociological Data
Pivoting and positionality: entrepreneurship, care, and the Covid-19 pandemic in Czechia and the U.S.A.
Our research reveals how family and business pivot opportunities and decisions are intertwined and shaped by respondent social positionality in two country contexts—the USA and Czechia. Our findings underline the need for intersectional, contextual, and comparative analyses as they relate to positionality and entrepreneurship generally as well as to specific women SEBOs’ Covid-19 survival strategies. We offer policy insights for supporting women as diverse SEBOs, with a specific focus on crises influencing…
Topics: Care, Work
Podnikání během pandemie a krize v kontextu genderových nerovností
Entrepreneurship during pandemics and crises in the context of gender inequalities. Policy brief.Whether the pandemic can be perceived as an opportunity to reduce gender inequality in entrepreneurship was the main question of the participatory workshop that we organized at the Institute of Sociology on March 13, 2024. The discussion during the participatory workshop focused on the barriers that women entrepreneurs face, the tools they can use to overcome them, the introduction of a attendance allowance for ent…
Topics: Gender, Work
Nízkopříjmoví podnikající a jejich způsob vyrovnání se s krizí na příkladu pandemie covidu-19
The aim of this paper is to analyse coping strategies to deal with the impact of crisis (pivots) among low-income entrepreneurs living in a marriage/partnership using the example of a pandemic as a social and economic crisis. We draw on literature that critiques the individualised and masculine conception of entrepreneurship as focused on innovation and profit. Our analysis reveals the diversity of entrepreneurial strategies for coping with pandemics. The choice of strategies has often been interpreted with an…
Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities
Gendered impact of caregiving on older nonmedical healthcare workers
Background: The paper deals with older workers and the issue of combining informal care for family members with paid employment, which is increasingly important in the light of socio-demographic changes in society - namely demographic ageing and the lengthening of working life. The topic is highly relevant to the group of non-medical healthcare professions studied, as they combine care in the professional and domestic spheres. Purpose of the research: The aim of the research is to point to gender inequalities…
Topics: Gender, Age and Aging, Public health
Key barriers, opportunities and good practices for entrepreneurship and innovation
The report is focused on barriers, opportunities and good practices for gender-sensitive innovations and entrepreneurship. It is based on the analysis of 36 interviews with experts from the health, green and digital fields and the target groups defined in the quadruple helix of academia, citizens, industry, and government. The interviews were collected by 12 GILL partners in the 10 consortium countries in 2023. Gender stereotypical cultural beliefs and norms, masculine bias, gender segregation, lack of funding…
Topics: Gender
Online marketingová komunikace cílící na děti školního věku
Online prostředí je plné různých forem marketingové komunikace, přičemž řadu z nich není na první pohled snadné rozeznat od běžného obsahu. Kvůli své nezkušenosti právě děti, o nichž je tato kniha, snáze podléhají marketingovým sdělením, která pak ovlivňují jejich nákupní preference. Respondenty našeho výzkumu byly děti ve věku 10–13 let, které jsou spotřebiteli i zákazníky a zároveň hrají významnou roli při nákupním rozhodování v rodině. Je proto nanejvý…
Topics: Media, Education
Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Health Strategies During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
The topic of safeguarding against sickness grew in importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. People’s health was more at risk, yet not all had the same capacity and options to deal with it. Therefore, this article focuses on the under-researched topic of choice of strategies and individual practices for safeguarding against one’s sickness among micro-entrepreneurs (with 1–10 employees) before and during the pandemic, namely on the example of Czechia. We analyse 30 qualitative interviews with micro-entrepr…
Topics: Gender, Social Policy, Public health
Zdravotní sestry a jejich prožívání dvojí péče v době pandemie covidu-19
The pandemic highlighted the importance of both formal and informal care and magnified gender inequalities in this area. Women were more represented in care-related frontline professions (including nurses), but they were also more often responsible for providing childcare when institutions (especially schools and nurseries) were closed. This paper builds on criticism aimed at the separate study of formal and informal care and explores the interconnections between the two in the case of Czech nurses with young …
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Public health
Dobré praxe rovného odměňování v kostce
Publikace, kterou držíte v ruce, vám přináší přehled vybraných zahraničních dobrých praxí, jejichž cílem je eliminace znevýhodnění mezi muži a ženami v oblasti finančního ohodnocení a dodržování zásad rovného zacházení v pracovní oblasti. V této publikaci se tak můžete setkat s popisem opatření, zákonů, právních norem a nástrojů podporujících genderovou rovnost v oblasti odměňování žen a mužů v následujících zemích: Slovensko, Španělsko, Island, Kanada, …
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes
Dobrá praxe rovného odměňování Švýcarsko
Švýcarsko je dlouhodobě aktivní v podpoře rovného odměňování žen a mužů, o čemž svědčí přijatá legislativa, institucionální podpora rovnosti žen a mužů a také zpřístupnění standardního analytického nástroje Logib zaměstnavatelským subjektům za účelem kontroly rovného odměňování. I přes výše uvedenou snahu zůstává rozdíl v odměňování žen a mužů ve Švýcarsku vysoký, v roce 2018 činil 19 % v neprospěch žen. Tato kapitola ve stručnosti shrne tři zák…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes
Institutional work in Czech and US business assistance programmes and implications for entrepreneurial inclusion
Topics: Gender, Work, Public Policy
Women and employment: advances and challenges in policies for women's labour-force participation in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of the post-pandemic recovery
The purpose of this document is to provide inputs and contribute to reflection for decision-making in the field of equality in employment between men and women. It aims to be a document of proposals and measures of public policies that can be taken into consideration, both in the 27 countries of the European Union (EU27) and in their relationship with their partners in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), to increase women's participation into the labour market in a stable and equitable manner.…
Topics: Economy, Gender
Dobrá praxe rovného odměňování na Islandu
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes
Ženy a životní prostředí
Topics: Gender, Environment
Dopad pandemie na ženy ve zdravotnictví
Topics: Gender, Public health
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