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The legacy of equality and the weakness of law: Within-Job Gender Wage Inequality in the Czech Republic
Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic in the years 1998, 2002, and 2004, we examine whether the introduction of legislative measures for gender equality connected with the accession to the European Union had a significant effect on gender wage inequality. The central conclusion of our analysis is that within-job wage inequality plays a significant role in the Czech labour market, and that there were no substantive changes during the period studied. Czech women doing the same jo…
Topics: Gender, Culture, Wages and Incomes, Parenting, Social Inequalities
Women's Entrepreneurial Realities in the Czech Republic and the United States: Gender Gaps, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantages, and Emancipatory Potential
Women entrepreneurs are not a homogenous group, intersectional approaches are essential to grasp how multiple dimensions of entrepreneurs’ social identities converge to frame opportunities. Our study focuses on the experiences and ambitions of small, purposively-selected samples of women business owners from two countries – the United States (US) and Czech Republic (CR). A combined contextual embeddedness/intersectional approach to entrepreneurship suggests that interwoven dimensions of identities position…
Topics: Gender, Work
Cultural repertoires of the division of labour market and family responsibilities between Slovak entrepreneurial couples and their gendered nature
The article is based on the contemporary trend in entrepreneurship research, which stresses context. We deal primarily with the family embeddedness of entrepreneurship, which is easily studied in the case of copreneurial couples, where the link is the tightest. In our article we use the term copreneurs as “romantic” partners involved in the same business. The degree of involvement in the same business is self-defined. In our opinion, this approach is most suited to describing invisible and unofficial roles…
Topics: Gender, Work
Genderové rozdíly v odměňování očima veřejnosti v České republice
Výzkum uskutečnilo oddělení Gender a sociologie Sociologického ústavu AV ČR, v.v.i., v rámci projektu „Jak na rovnost v odměňování... aneb Pozor na nezamýšlené důsledky!“ financovaného Evropskou unií z Evropského sociálního fondu, operačního programu Zaměstnanost č. CZ.03.1.51/0.0/0.0/16_061/0003501. Dotazníkové šetření bylo provedeno ve spolupráci s Centrem pro výzkum veřejného mínění (CVVM) Sociologického ústavu AV ČR, v.v.i. Sběr dat proběhl jako součást pravi…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work, Family
Global Structural Inequalities and Responsibility for Global Justice: A Feminist Contribution
Topics: European Union, Globalization
Aktéři doby kosmopolitismu: Kritická teorie Ulricha Becka optikou migrace
Topics: Gender, Globalization, Migration and Mobility
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: Gender, Care, Parenting
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, Work
Caring for Elderly Parents: New Commitment of the Third Age
The article explores the practices of elderly care in the Czech Republic from the life-course perspective, using qualitative research methodology: biographical interviews with women providing everyday care to their parents. The case of elderly care presents an opportunity to critically examine the concepts of the ‘third age’ and ‘young old’, that have figured prominently in theoretical and political debates concerning the life stage in which the need to care for one ́s parents seems most likely to ari…
Topics: Gender, Care, Age and Aging
Kontext, příčiny a důsledky bezdětnosti v Evropě
Topics: Family
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
Proč ženy pečují? Gender a neformální péče o seniory
Based on qualitative research of women that cared in the past or care now for their frail elderly mothers, this article aims to describe and explain some of the factors leading to the predominance of women in informal care for the elderly. The article builds on Sandra Harding’s and Joan W. Scott’s concept of gender. Their concept defines gender as a category operating at multiple interconnected levels. Based on the analysis of interviews with biographical components, we show the impact of cultural and stru…
Topics: Gender, Care
Gender balance power map
The qualitative study is focused on the issue of equal access of women (and men) into managerial and decision-making positions in a social enterprise and conventional one in the Czech Republic. The results of the study reflect a lack of focus on gender equality, low sensitivity to gender based discrimination, recurrence of gender stereotypes and the lack of internal policies (formal procedures) to promote women in leadership positions in the surveyed firms.…
Topics: Gender
Gender a rovnováha moci
The qualitative study is focused on the issue of equal access of women (and men) into managerial and decision-making positions in a social enterprise and conventional one in the Czech Republic. The results of the study reflect a lack of focus on gender equality, low sensitivity to gender based discrimination, recurrence of gender stereotypes and the lack of internal policies (formal procedures) to promote women in leadership positions in the surveyed firms.…
Topics: Gender
Gender a energetika
Energy is not merely a technological field, it also influences and is influenced by the wider social context. From various perspectives energy impacts the lives of people and it shapes people, not just those who work in the field of energy, in various ways. This publication focuses specifically on how these processes operate from the perspective of gender equality. Gender inequality in the field of energy is not yet a subject much addressed in the Czech Republic: it is not the subject of research surveys, it d…
Topics: Gender
Social bias within the institution of hired domestic care: global interactions and migration
Topics: Gender, Globalization, Care
家庭护理雇佣制度的僵局
Topics: Gender, Globalization
Czech Women’s NGOs: Women’s Voices and Claims in the Public Sphere
Topics: Gender, Care
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
Editorial: Gender Aspects of the Life Course
Topics: Gender
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, Age and Aging
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
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