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Genderová rovnost v evropské vědní politice: politická ekonomie strukturální změny

European science policy turned its attention to gender equality at the end of the 20th century, influencing to a smaller or greater extent three Framework Programmes supporting European research and technological development (the fifth, sixth and seventh). Gender equality is also an important component of the current negotiations of the next framework programme titled Horizon 2002 for the period 2013-2020. In this paper I analyse European policies of gender equality in science between 2008 and 2011. I ask what…

Topics: European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Překlad článku Genderové praktiky v konstrukci akademické excelence: Ovce s pěti nohama

Academic excellence is allegedly a universal and gender neutral standard of merit. This article examines exactly what is constructed as academic excellence at the micro-level, how evaluators operationalize this construct in the criteria they apply in academic evaluation, and how gender inequalities are imbued in the construction and evaluation of excellence. We challenge the view that the academic world is governed by the normative principle of meritocracy in its allocation of rewards and resources. Based on a…

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Public accountability and the politicization of science: The peculiar journey of Czech research assessment

Public accountability and the politicization of science: The peculiar journey of Czech research assessment

In recent decades, research has undergone major changes, resulting in radical shifts in patterns of governance. In this process, external forms of research assessment have developed as a proxy for researchers’ and research institutions’ accountability to society. In this paper we focus on the developments of research assessment in the Czech Republic. First, we trace the trajectory of accountability measures in the socio-historical contexts of post-socialist science as a tool of not only evaluating but also…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Remaking Social Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women´s Movements´ Agency in Child-Care Politics and Policies

The chapter focuses on the analysis of women´s movements´ claims-making around child-care and their agency in the remakingof the concept of social citizenship. It explores the frames used by women´s movements to articulate and justify their child-care claims. The contrast research is elaborated on the data from four European countries that are examples of different welfare state models, political context and historical trajectories, and that represent different care regimes in Europe: Czech Republic, Spai…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Care

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Jak se rodí v organizaci

The book under review offers an anthropologic analysis of the culture of Czech hospital maternity wards. It attempts to open a "middle way" in the discourse, without putting in conflict the medical and the natural concept of childbirth. …

Topics: Parenting

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The Technique of Life-stories for a Sociological Analysis: Fatherhood after Divorce

The chapter deals with the use of narration of life stories as research methodology in the sociological research, specifically in theresearch of the fatherhood after divorce in the Czech Republic. …

Topics: Research Methodology, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Populace, reprodukce a nevhodná těla: Pokusy o regulaci Romské populace ve druhé polovině 20. století.

The article describes the institutions and practices used in the 20 century in Czechoslovakia with the aim of control and regulation of Roma population, and that targeted mainly the reproductive behaviour of Roma women. …

Topics: Historical Sociology, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rodičovství po rozchodu partnerů z genderového hlediska

The destabilisation of the institution of mariage has two important consequences: the difficult situation of single and divorced mothers parenting alone, and the loss of fathers involvement in childcare and education.…

Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Slaďování soukromé a veřejné sféry: partnerské vztahy a pracovní uplatnění mužů a žen

The article deals with the relationships of men and women as the result of influence of interdependet structures. …

Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Kvalitativní metodologie sociologického výzkumu: konstruktivistická grounded theory a „rozumějící rozhovor“

The chapter introduces the qualitative methodology of sociological research, specifically the method of grounded theory as inspired by the paradigm of social constructivism. It shows how the technique of interview can be used in this methodological approach. …

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Proč také naše společnost potřebuje antidiskriminační zákon. Havelková, B. 2007

This review of the book of Barbara Havelkova is positively evaluating the complexity and exactness of the approach used to explain the issue of gender pay inequalities between women and men in the context of absence of the anti-discrimination law in the Czech Republic. Barbara Havelková puts the issue into context with the European law, theories of gender inequalities and statistical indicators.…

Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities, Social Policy

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Znevýhodňování žen a mužů v práci

Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities

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Diskriminace žen na trhu práce

Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities

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Zastoupení žen v politice

Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes

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