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Women and Social Citizenship in Czech Society: Continuity and Change
The critical attention feminists have paid to the concept of citizenship has significantly contributed to the con¬temporary political imagination of citizenship. In this book the authors from the Czech Republic follow up on the feminist debate on citizenship and examine the insti¬tutional contexts, ideologies and practices that have sha¬ped opportunities for and barriers to the full citizenship of women in various socio-economic, ethnic and national groups in the communist and post-communist contexts and sp…
Topics: Gender, Work, Family, Social Policy, Transformation
Trh práce a plodnost: bezdětní třicátníci a třicátnice na trhu práce
Qualitative survey showed several ways, in which labor market influences decisions on transition to parenthood in current Czech society. Those ways are gender specific. Preferences and decision-making on transition to parenthood of 30-40 year-old men and women are embedded in internalized values as well as external structural barriers and opportunities. …
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting
Kam směřuje česká společnost v oblasti denní péče o předškolní děti?
Czech Republic has abandoned its previous childcare policy after 1989. It is currently among the countries with the lowest percentage of children under the age of three in formal childcare while percentages of older children are rather average or high in European comparison. The chapter analyzes causes of the decline in the formal childcare and answers several questions: Who cares for children in current Czech society? What is the future of pre-school childcare in Czech society? Does Czech society need a new p…
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
The Development of Czech Childcare Policies
The area that comprises today’s Czech Republic has a long and rich history of providing childcare facilities to preschool children. Kindergartens continue to be popular to this day and at present almost all Czech children attend these facilities. On the other hand, nurseries nearly vanished in the Czech Republic. The question remains why a country that used to belong to the world leaders in providing access to childcare has so suddenly become one of the greatest laggards concerning care for children under th…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family
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
Fenomén bezdětnosti
The book focuses on the phenomenon of childlessness in the Czech society. Specifically, the aim of the book was to identify the factors contributing to childlessness and the increase in the percentage of the childless in young adult population, and to explore the understanding (definitions) of childlessness by the childless. …
Topics: Gender, Parenting
Politické implikace a shrnutí
This chapter summarizes results of previous analysis that led the authors to identifying and deconstructing seven myths on childcare that prevail in the Czech Republic. Based on arguments introduced in previous chapters this chapter offers also authors´ recommendations to Czech childcare policy.…
Topics: Care, Politics and Political Attitudes, Parenting, Public Policy
Mýtus sedmý: Česká rodinná politika vychází z odborných poznatků
This chapter presents a short overview of childcare policies implemented in Scandinavian countries, France and Germany, and shows that these policies stem from different ideologies. Based on an institutional analysis the authors then discuss the ways in which Czech conservatives have managed to gain great influence over Czech childcare policy.…
Topics: Care, Parenting, Public Policy
Mýtus pátý: Češi a Češky jesle nechtějí
Public opinion research shows that most Czechs think children should stay at home the first three years. But the situation is more complicated and filled with contradictions.…
Topics: Care, Parenting
Mýtus čtvrtý: Pro děti je přirozené, aby se svou matkou zůstavaly doma až do věku třílet
The chapter reveals that the myth that children below the age of three do not benefit from quality daycare is not based on current scientific knowledge and that the myth does not exist in all countries.…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting
Mýtus třetí: Jesle jsou vynálezem komunistů
Based on analysis of historical documents the author deconstructs the myth strongly held in the Czech Republic that nurseries are communist invention, and analyzes their operation in Czechoslovakia before 1989.…
Topics: Care, Parenting
Sedm mýtů o péči o nejmenší
In this chapter the authors name seven myths that they have identified in Czech society, which block development of Czech childcare policy.…
Topics: Care, Parenting, Family, Public Policy
Péče o nejmenší. Boření mýtů
Authors of the book reveal and deconstruct seven myths that block open discussion and reforms in the area of childcare policy in the Czech Republic, and formulate the principles of non-discriminatory childcare policy.…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family
Proměny časování a způsobu návratu matek do zaměstnání
In a European comparison, the Czech Republic is one of the countries where motherhood has the biggest negative impact on women’s employment participation. Some researchers explain this situation as resulting from Czech mothers’ preferences for a long‑term interruption to their labour market participation. Others stress that preferences are structurally and culturally embedded and identify barriers to the return of Czech mothers to the labour market. In this article, the author first introduces a critiqu…
Topics: Gender
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