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Obedient mothers, healthy children: communication on the risks of reproduction in state-socialist Czechoslovakia
The article analyses medical communication in popular media relating to the risks in reproduction in the state-socialist Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 and shows how it used emotions as an instrument to control women’s reproductive behaviour. In particular, we use an approach inspired by Donati’s (1992) political discourse analysis and by Snow and Bedford’s (1988) framing analysis to explore communication on the risk of infertility in the abortion debate, the risk of fetal abnormalities in the pren…
What happened to my time during the COVID-19 lockdown? Parents’ subversive temporal regime strategies and their potential beyond the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted individuals to devise new temporal strategies in various spheres of their lives as a result of the spatial regulations imposed during the first lockdown. We apply Lisa Suckert’s theoretical model of ‘the capitalist time regime’ in the analysis of 68 interviews with parents of schoolchildren in seven European countries conducted during the first COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. We examine actors’ agency and capability to govern time during the pandemic and the extent to w…
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities
Using an intersectional approach, we explore how parents in the Czech Republic coped with the increased demands of childcare and how their perceptions of childcare changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on Nancy Fraser’s theory of the social contradiction of capitalism, we address the question of whether the pandemic situation can be viewed as an opportunity to increase recognition of care. Qualitative interviews with parents from various socioeconomic backgrounds conducted from spring 2020 to su…
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
Hands labouring for safety: Mediated intimacy in influencer communities on Instagram
The article explores how digital images of hands are used as a symbolic representation of intimacy and intimate emotions in influencer communication on Instagram. Based on digital ethnography with female influencers in the Czech Republic, the analysis focuses on three categories of communicative practices, where hands function as a visual representation of intimacy—creating community, a sense of vulnerability, and the notion of rawness and openness. The analysis points to the gendered nature of influencer co…
Living hated: Everyday experiences of hate speech across online and offline contexts
The article builds on current research into the effects and harms of hate speech in the lives of its victims. It introduces the anthropological concept of everyday violence to focus on hate speech as an everyday experience as opposed to a sequence of separate hate speech acts. Methodologically, the study is based on a qualitative approach and analyses data collected via semi-structured interviews (N=33) with people who have experienced hate speech in four EU member states (Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic an…
Sources of sex disaggregated data + practical examples
Topics: Gender, Sociological Data
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in High-Income Countries
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is all the more urgent to study as workplaces, in the last decades, have undergone profound reorganizations that could affect the magnitude and evolution of earnings segregation. Analyzing linked employer-employee panel administrative databases, the authors estimate the evolving isolation of higher earners from othe…
Topics: Digitalization, Trust/Social Cohesion, Elites, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities
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
Komunikační strategie genderově orientovaných témat u mladých lidí
Tato zpráva je výstupem kvalitativního výzkumu s mladými lidmi ve věku 15–20 let, jenž byl realizován v rámci projektu WITH YOU*TH na cestě k aktivnímu občanství1 . Projekt si klade za cíl prosadit genderovou rovnost jako součást výchovy vzdělávacího kurikula a dále pomocí kampaně na sociální síti Instagram cílí na posilování aktivního občanství u mladých lidí a prohloubení jejich znalostí v otázkách genderové rovnosti. Za tímto účelem byla realizována kva…
Topics: Gender, Civil Society
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 inequali…
Topics: Gender, Age and Aging, Public health
Podnikání jako mužský svět? Využívání kompetencí v podnikání sebezaměstnaných žen a mikropodnikatelek v ČR
Tento výzkum přinesl některé nové a důležité poznatky o podnikání sebezaměstnaných žen (OSVČ) a mikropodnikatelek. Zaměřil se nově na zkušenost podnikatelek s digitálními technologiemi, na jejich kompetence v této oblasti i na využívání měkkých dovedností v podnikatelské činnosti. Pozornost věnoval rovněž jejich vnímání podnikání včetně toho, jak jsou viděny coby podnikatelky svým okolím.…
Topics: Gender
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
Prekarita jako reálná zkušenost sebezaměstnaných a mikropodniků
Kteří podnikající jsou ve svém podnikání nejvíce znevýhodněni a v jakých oblastech? Co je největším úskalím při hledání informací o vlastním podnikání? Existuje vůbec nějaká regulace platformové ekonomiky na českém trhu práce? Může práce v coworkingovém centru zmírnit aspekty prekarity v podnikání? Jak se podnikající zabezpečují pro případ vlastní nemoci? Tyto a mnoho dalších otázek zodpovídá právě vydaná výzkumná zpráva týmu projektu Prekarita jako re…
Topics: Gender, Work
Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries
Extant research on the gender pay gap suggests that men and women who do the same work for the same employer receive similar pay, so that processes sorting people into jobs are thought to account for the vast majority of the pay gap. Data that can identify women and men who do the same work for the same employer are rare, and research informing this crucial aspect of gender differences in pay is several decades old and from a limited number of countries. Here, using recent linked employer–employee data from …
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
Nurses and the COVID-19 Pandemic – Practices and Identity Construction in Formal and Informal Care
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
Genderové rozdíly v odměňování a rodičovství: možnosti inovace ISPV
Cílem publikace je najít cestu k tomu, jak inovovat ISPV (Informační systém o průměrném výdělku), aby na jeho základě šlo analyzovat data o vlivu rodičovství na mzdy a genderové mzdové rozdíly přímo z těchto dat. Jde přitom o unikátní data propojující zaměstnané osoby s jejich zaměstnavateli (tzv. linked employer-employee data), která jsou v současnosti nejkvalitnějším datovým zdrojem pro analýzu rozdílů v odměňování v ČR. Údaje o rodičovství v tomto datovém z…
Topics: Gender, Work
Review [Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the “Gypsy Question” in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956. By Eszter Varsa. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021.]
Topics: Gender, Historical Sociology, Care, Parenting, Family, Social Policy
„Sdílím s vámi svoji cestu“: Influencerství a wellness spiritualita v online komunitách
Tzv. spirituální infl uenceři se v českém prostředí zviditelnili během pandemie COVID-19, jejich popularita nadále roste a vyvolává kontroverze ve veřejné debatě. Fenomén spirituálního influencerství je možné propojit s institucí „gurus“ a zároveň je nutné ho vnímat v kontextu digitálního prostoru a sociálních sítí, se kterým je bytostně propojený. Článek analyzuje fenomén spirituálního infl uencerství právě v těchto souvislostech a na příkladech z česk…
Topics: Internet, Media, Religion and religiosity
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