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Biografie migrantek jako žitá kritika zneuznání

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

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From women’s struggles to distorted emancipation: The interplay of care practices and global capitalism of care practices and global capitalism

This article develops a critical analysis of transformations of the idea and practice of women’s emancipation in late-modern Western society under the influence of globalizing advanced capitalism. It builds on analyses of feminist critical theory and critical globalization studies and argues that global capitalism initiates processes in which the practice of emancipation is distorted. Distorted emancipation refers to the social consequences of the marketization and commodification of areas of social life tha…

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Care

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Aktivistický proud feministického hnutí v ČR

The author contributes to the discussion on the second or third wave character of the feminist movement in Czech Republic. She describes the development of activist feminist movement against the backdrop of more than ten years working academic and NGO’s activities and the radical left. In the end she argues for the analogy to the US second wave feminism developments.…

Topics: Gender, Civil Society

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

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Globální muž a lokální žena? Feministický pohled na globalizaci

The paper presents a feminist critique of globalization. The mainstream theories of globalization have a masculine bias. Bringing gender aspects to globalization characterizes global actors and creates a framework for global issues. Mostly the economic globalization and the changes of the organization of labour globally are addressed. The link between the hegemonic form of masculinity and feminized production is described. The global production is dependent on cheap women’s work in factories of transnational…

Topics: Gender, Globalization

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

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Gender v protestu sociálních hnutí proti globalizaci

The paper is a review of literature on gender aspects of social movement's protest against globalization. It divides the movements according to gender of participants to grassroots women's movements against globalization, gender-neutral anti-globalization movement and masculine movements that express anti-globalization stance. It focuses specifically on activism against sweatshop labor and its transnational networks, connections, and its positive and negative effects. It analyses the gender aspects of th…

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Civil Society

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Na křižovatce nerovností: gender, třída, rasa/etnicita

This article focuses on the intersection of gender, class and racial/ethnic inequalities. The intersection theory draws on the feminist critique of traditional class theory and on the challenge to feminism posed by ethnic women. The article develops thinking about various configurations of the intersection of inequalities and addresses mainly the case of marginalized women. However, the argument goes that the intersection of gender, class and racial/ethnic inequalities is not just a matter for disadvantaged gr…

Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

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Od globálního sesterství k transnacionálnímu feminismu: výzvy ženskému hnutí ve formě kulturních odlišností a nerovností mezi ženami

Transnational feminism has become a significant global actor in recent decades, but it is not unanimous. Imperial tendencies of western feminists to influence women in other cultures have already appeared in the history of the feminist movement. Criticism of white Euro-American feminism, especially in the form of global sisterhood, has reached a peak in the past three decades, especially in international fora. Anti-colonial feminists have complained about the racist and orientalist practices of American femini…

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Civil Society

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

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Flexibility trap – the effects of flexible working on the position of female professionals and managers within a corporate environment

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Workshop 3: Podpora žen ve vedení firem a organizací. Možnosti a opatření na podporu žen v kariérním růstu

Third workshop: 8 October 2015, mix of social enterprises, conventional enterprises, NGOs and public serviceThe third workshop was called ‘Support for women in the management of organisations: Possibilities and measures to foster women’s career development’. In the first part, the research team presented the most important results of the Czech national study, as well as a summary of the good practices from workshops 1 and 2. In the second part, the focus was on the career development of women and on meas…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

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Workshop 2: Vstřícné pracovní podmínky v sociálním podnikání

Second workshop: 10 September 2015, social enterprisesThe second workshop was entitled, ‘Friendly working conditions in social entrepreneurship: How to effectively develop and use the potential of employees with different kinds of disabilities?’. In the first part of the workshop, the participants discussed the advantages and disadvantages of diversity teams. An important advantage mentioned was the opportunity for personal development (e.g. learning to be patient, respecting the needs of others), whereas …

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Other Publication

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Workshop 1: Co stojí v cestě kariérnímu růstu?

První workshop: 8. září 2015, konvenční podnikyPrvní workshop byl zaměřený na konvenční podnikání a nesl název „Co stojí v cestě kariérnímu růstu? Jak efektivně rozvíjet potenciál zaměstnanců a zaměstnankyň v malých podnicích?“ Cílem workshopu bylo pojednat o a) metodách, jakými zaměstnavatelé/lky zapojují ženy do vedení, b) zkušenostech žen v rozhodovacích pozicích a c) způsobech, jak posílit rovné podmínky a rovné zacházení na pracovišti. Na začátku akce…

Topics: Gender, Work

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