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Topics: European Union, Gender, Public Policy
Management genderových vztahů. Postavení žen a mužů v organizaci
This book is the first Czech attempt at a comprehensive understanding of gender relations within organisations. The book aims to clarify and describe the issues that the management of gender relations deals with, and to stimulate and advance gender awareness and sensitivity among readers. Experiences outside the Czech Republic and even studies within the country show that solutions to issues associated with the positions, functions and mutual relations of men and women are of fundamental strategic significan…
Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities
Gender Mainstreaming Case Studies
In the report for Workpackage 6 a description is provided of the political process behind the implementation of the principle ofgender mainstreaming in the Czech Republic. The report begins by examining the state of institutional and legislative measures in place relating to gender equality prior to 1989, and then it proceeds to describe the process whereby the principle of gender mainstreaming has been implemented since 1989, including the institutions involved and the methods used. The report highlights…
Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities
Obtěžování žen a mužů a sexuální obtěžování v českém systému pracovních vztahů. Rozsah, formy, aktéři, řešení
This study of the final report on the research project “An Analysis of the Occurrence of the Harassment of Women and Men and Sexual Harassment at the Workplace”, conducted in 2004-2005 and commissioned by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic. This project was the first in the Czech Republic whose aim was following the introduction of the definition of sexual harassment into the Czech legal code to conduct a complex analysis of the extent of the problem The study presents the resu…
Topics: Gender, Sexuality
Geschlechterspezifische Auswirkungen der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Tschechischen Republik, Ungarn und Slowenien
Für diese Kapitel haben wir Tschechien, Ungarn und Slowenien als Vergleichsgrundlage ausgewählt, um Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede in postsozialistischen Ländern (nach dem Umbruch und dem EU-Beitritt 2000 - 2005) näher zu untersuchen. Während und nach der Umstellung auf die Markwirtschaft gewannen konservative Einstellungen bezüglich der Geschlechterrollen sowohl im privaten als auch öffentlichen/politischen Leben stärkeren Einfluss und Frauen einige, während der sozialistischen Ära gewonnenen Recht…
Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities, Social Policy
Gender (In)Equalities in Employment and Care in the Czech Republic during the EU Accession and EU Membership
The focus in the following article lies on the interconnection between employment and care in the Czech Republic. To begin with we present the institutional framework for gender equality that has been introduced in the Czech Republic during the EUaccession period. First, we focus on the gender structure of the labour market and the national employment strategy from thepoint of view of gender equality (as an example we choose the gender pay gap) second, we look at the conditions fo…
Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities
The gender implications of labour market policy during the transformation and EU accession. A comparison of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia
In this article we compare the models of economic transition that have influenced changes in legislation and employment andsocial policies and have an impact on gender equality in the labour markets of three post-socialist countries during the period ofeconomic transition and accession to the EU (2000-2005) – Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia. We argue that the promise for gender equality has not been realised because of the formal approach to the EU accession process in th…
Topics: European Union, Gender, Social Inequalities
Proč se české ženy ženou na manažerské pozice?
The Chapter offers an answer to a question: Why there are so few women in management positions in the Czech labour market? To find an answer it also asks, what are the motivations and strategies of women to follow a career path and to ester management positions? The assumption that women cannot or do not want to dedicate as much time and energy to work as men does not apply. Neither does apply the opinion that women do not have required abilities for management positions. The fact that women create only one fo…
Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities
The Impact of EU Accession on the Promotion of Women and Gender Equality in the Czech Republic
Preparation for the CR’s accession to the EU was the most important legitimizing force to promote gender equality in thecountry. Attitudes of the EU and Czech governmental officials and politicians towards gender equality together with changes in financial sources for Czech women’s NGOs, were the most important factors that shaped both the character of the promotion of gender equality and the possibilities and obstacles women’s civic groups faced in the promotion of their goals.…
Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities
Discrimination Processes in Women’s Working Paths in the Czech Republic
The paper traces the contexts and processes of gender inequality and gender discrimination in the Czech labour market. The primary innovation of the research is the use of qualitative sociological methodology. Quantitative sociological research alone has thus far been unable to uncover the factors, contexts and actors´ understandings of gender inequality and discrimination. The research applies the biographic-narrative method focused on work biography and its interconnection with the life story. The pape…
Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities
‘When she earns enough…’ The biographic research approach to gender diversity in the management of organisations
The focus of this research paper is on women in managerial positions within organisations in the Czech Republic. The paper draws on theories of gendered power relations in organisations and their management, an intersectional approach to gender inequalities, and, methodologically, a biographical approach to gender sociology. As a case study, its data was gathered through biographical interviews with female managers within the same company. The text is based on two selected interviews and illustrates how, in or…
Topics: Gender, Work
Genderové aspekty neúspěchu českých návrhů zákonů upravujících náhradní výživné na dítě
Many European states, including the Czech Republic, are facing high default rate on child support payments. In combination with a high divorce rate and, in some states, ineffective law enforcement, this has become a dire problem and one that has gender repercussions. In an effort to solve this situation, almost half of EU member states have adopted a system of state advances on child maintenance. The Czech Republic is not one of them. The article discusses why all three attempts to pass such a law failed in th…
Topics: Gender, Care, Social Policy
Zábrodská, K: Variace na gender. Poststrukturalismus, diskursivní analýza a genderová identita
Review of book "Variace na gender: Poststrukturalismus, diskursivní analýza a genderová identita" focuses on research of gender identity. …
Topics: Gender
Přinese současná diskuse o rovnosti odměňování změny v Evropské legislativě?
Topics: European Union, Gender, Social Inequalities
Ideály péče v kontextu nových sociálních rizik
The ability of traditional social policies to protect against poverty and social exclusion is critically discussed in theories about so called new social risks (Taylor-Goodby 2004, Bonoli 2005). These social risks of the postindustrial society are strongly related to the massive entry of women into the labor market. The growth of female employment caused changes not only in the labor market and also in the nature of partner cohabitation and parenthood. Especially the questions who and how should care becam…
Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Family
Mothers or Institutions? How Women Work and Care in Slovenia and the Czech Republic
This article considers women’s and men’s roles in the labour market and the different ways in which care-work is shared inSlovenia and the Czech Republic. Effective policy measures can prevent parenting of young children becoming one of thegreatest risks of falling into poverty. The authors discuss to what extent the prevailing ideals of care influence the policies in relation to parenting as a source of social risks. The two post-communist countries - Slovenia and Czech Republic - sh…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family
NGOs and the public: Understanding the lack of public mobilisation
Topics: Public Opinion
Polní pokusy s geneticky modifikovanými plodinami jako místa střetů výzkumu a veřejnosti
Topics: Value Orientations, Public Opinion
Příroda v národním parku Šumava: Příroda nezačíná tam, kde končí lidská intervence
Topics: Value Orientations
Hrátky s čerty? Politické souvislosti a přesahy sociálně-vědního výzkumu
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy
Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places
Recently there have been pleas for STS to make a difference in how science policies are constructed and enacted. Much less remarked upon is the possibility that there may be troubling alignments between science studies and research policies in the form of shared conceptual, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Both have come to emphasise material outputsand visible activity, obscuring other processes, relationships and orderings involved in science work. This collection of papers …
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
Making Pure Science and Pure Politics: On the Expertise of Bypass and the Bypass of Expertise
This article is based on a case study of a long-term public controversy over the construction of a highway bypass (around Plzen,Czech Republic). Two principal variants of the bypass were proposed. One of them began gradually to appear preferable, increasingly attractive for experts, but remaining only on paper. In the meantime, however, the other variant became more realistic, pushed through mainly by local politicians and actually constructed. This article shows how purification of science frompolitics (…
Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences
Beyond inclusion: effects and limits of institutionalised public participation
European institutions as well as member states have been recently promoting participatory procedures that are proclaimed to contribute to the legitimacy of political regimes and decision-making processes. Discussing three cases in the controversy over GMOs in the Czech Republic and France, this paper analyses participatory procedures as a power technique, and argues that they have a tendency to strengthen existing power and epistemic relationships. The paper goes on to focus on the initiative of Faucheurs volo…
Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Civil Society
Immutable Mobiles Derailed: STS, Geopolitics, and Research Assessment
Science policies and science studies largely share an understanding of scientific knowledge and objects as immutable mobiles. This article shows how the analysis of research assessment in a non-Anglophone country and its effects on social sciences can shed new light on this shared notion. The preference for immutable mobiles in assessment regimes pushes social scientists to publish in specialized, usually Anglophone journals, which can result in the attenuation of local relevance of the knowledge they produ…
Topics: Value Orientations, Sociology of Sciences
Social technology transfer? Movement of social science knowledge beyond the academy
Technology has become a key vehicle and index of the societal impact of science. Technology’s dominant image, both in science and technology studies (STS) and in science policies, is one of a material device or a complex procedure using machines with origins in natural science disciplines. This article inquires into the vehicles and forms of societal impact in the case of the social sciences. It empirically looks into the generation and circulation of knowledge and expertise on Roma and, drawing upon S…
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
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