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Negotiating Access to Assisted Reproduction Technologies in a Post-Socialist Heteronormative Context

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Sexuality

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Kontext, příčiny a důsledky bezdětnosti v Evropě

Topics: Family

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Institutions and Discourses on Childcare for Children Under the Age of Three in a Comparative French-Czech Perspective

The article compares the development of policies pertaining to care for preschool children inthe course of the second half of the 20th century in France and in the Czech Republic. It aims atidentifying the key factors that led to the differentiation of the policies and institutions in the twocountries, especially with respect to support for extra-familial care and formal care institutions(nurseries). We build on the theories of ‘new’ institutionalisms and we apply framing analysis,which allows us to unders…

Topics: Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Czech Women’s NGOs: Women’s Voices and Claims in the Public Sphere

Topics: Gender, Care

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Life-Course Oriented Working Time Options in the Czech Republic: What Workplace Conditions Influence Their Use?

Employees in many European countries do have at their disposal various working-time options. Shorter working hours, leave options and flexible working-time arrangements enable employees to adjust their working time to meet their needs over the life course. The current study presents new national studies on working time options over the life course in five European countries. Laura den Dulk (the Netherlands), Dominique Anxo (Sweden), Sevil Sümer (Norway), Dorota Szelewa (Poland) and Hana Hašková and Renata K…

Topics: Care, Work, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Editorial: Gender Aspects of the Life Course

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Precarious work and care responsibilities in the economic crisis

Economic transformation after 1989 and the global economic recession that began in 2008 have caused an increase in precarious work in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. As a result of refamilialization, precarious work acquired a specific form for women. We use the Czech Republic as an example in analysing a trend that is obvious throughout the Visegrád countries and apply the capabilities approach to understand the dynamics of precarious work in the lives of women with care responsibilities. Neithe…

Topics: Gender, Care, Work

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Frauenerwerbsarbeit, Familienpolitik und Kinderbetreuung. Frühkindliche Betreuung und Bildung in der tschechischen Gesellschaft nach 1945

In this chapter the author has argued that there were four critical junctures that institutionalized a specific path of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the Czech Republic. Its four critical junctures led to the institutionalization of a specific division of rules and concepts regarding “adequate” ECEC. The already established path of childcare and pre-school education policy places clear limits on the development of new policies.…

Topics: Care, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Proměny časování a způsobu návratu matek do zaměstnání

Topics: Gender, Care, Work

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Gender & Sociology

The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

The authors combine historical and sociological institutional analysis to show that despite thepolitical and socio-economic transformation in 1990s, the institutional development during andbefore the communist era provides the best explanation for current childcare policies in CentralEurope. While most authors have concentrated on policy changes that have taken place in the regionsince 1989, this article concentrates on the historical roots of these policies and shows that today’spolicies are highly influenc…

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Social Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Revanš istorii: institucionalnie korni semejnoj politiki v postkommunističeskich stranach: Češskoj Respublike, Vengrii i Polše

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Prekérní práce pečujících žen v kontextu ekonomické krize

Dudová, Radka, Hana Hašková. 2014. „Prekérní práce pečujících žen v kontextu ekonomické krize.“ Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum 15 (2): 19-32, http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/12130028.2014.15.2.128Abstract: In this article the authors examine the forms and experiences of insecure and precarious work by Czech women caring for a child or a dependent family member. The results of a quantitative survey indicate that the share of caring women performing precarious work increased during the eco…

Topics: Gender, Care, Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Kvantitativní a kvalitativní přístupy ve výzkumu životních drah

Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Life Course ResearchAbstract: Despite the growing number of statistical analyses of life-history data and a long tradition of biographical research, there is often no communication between these two streams of life-course research. It is possible to examine the life course quantitatively through life histories, which may be used to model synthetic biographies in order to reveal patterns in the timing and sequencing of life events, the durations of states between them,…

Topics: Research Methodology, Care, Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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

Seminář ke knize Práce a péče

Topics: Care, Work

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Gender & Sociology

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