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Childlessness and Barriers to Gay Parenthood in Czechia

This mixed‐methods article focuses on childlessness and barriers to parenthood among non‐heterosexual men in Czechia. On the quantitative sample of 419 men (165 gays, 125 bisexuals, and 129 heterosexuals with same‐sex romantic/sexual attraction), recruited on a representative online panel, we map the parenting desires, intentions, and perceived barriers to parenthood. Our analysis identifies a substantial group of gay men without parenting desires and intentions compared to heterosexuals and bisexuals, a…

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Sexuality

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Péče jako individuální odpovědnost a prohloubení ekonomického znevýhodnění sólo matek v pandemii covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic had a particularly severe impact on people in a vulnerable position, such as solo mothers living alone with their children. In this article I use an intersectional approach in order to understand how their different positions in life affected their ability to cope with the crisis situation. I present a longitudinal qualitative study of the situation of solo mothers in the Czech Republic during the Covid-19 crisis, based on repeated interviews with women from three Czech regions. The preli…

Topics: Gender, Care

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Cash for Care as Special Money: The Meaning and Uses of the Care Allowance in Close Relationships in the Czech Republic

Cash for Care as Special Money: The Meaning and Uses of the Care Allowance in Close Relationships in the Czech Republic

Investigating what happens when money in the form of a cash-for-care benefit enters family relationships, this article examines long-term family care in the Czech Republic where a “care allowance” was introduced in 2007. It compares two qualitative studies: one of adult children providing care to their parents and the other of mothers caring for a disabled child in both cases, the adults are entitled to the benefit. The studies used narrative and in-depth interviews with forty-eight informal caregivers. Da…

Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Care, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Bezdětní a postoje k rodičovství

Fenomén bezdětnosti je jedním z rysů demografického vývoje evropských populací. V mezinárodním kontextu se Česká republika řadí k zemím s nejnižším podílem bezdětných žen v populaci. Podle projekcí bude nejvyšší, téměř pětinový podíl trvale bezdětných v generacích narozených v polovině 80. let, v dalších generacích by měl postupně klesat na 11 %, podíl žen se dvěma dětmi se sníží na 45 až 47 %. Monografie přináší výsledky výzkumu bezdětných jedinců a p…

Topics: Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Dynamický pohled na bezdětnost perspektivou kvalitativního longitudinálního výzkumu

Perspektivou longitudinálního kvalitativního výzkumu článek přispívá k porozumění růstu bezdětnosti v ČR skrze zachycení zkušeností a identit bezdětných a osvětlení mechanismů, které vedou k dlouhodobému setrvávání v bezdětnosti či změnám reprodukčních identit a plánů. Výzkum vychází z analýzy zpravidla po 11−12 letech opakovaných problémově  orientovaných rozhovorů s ženami a muži, kteří byli v 1. vlně rozhovorů bezdětní a bu preferovali trvalou bezdětn…

Topics: Parenting

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Women and the environment

Women and the environment

This is the fourth shadow report Beijing 25+, which assesses the implementation of the strategic goals of the international Beijing Platform for Action in the Czech Republic. The Women and the Environment chapter assesses the achievement of the goals in the following areas: institutional anchoring of the issue, participation in the field of environment and sustainable development, and differences in attitudes towards the environment between men and women.…

Topics: Gender, Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The impact of the pandemic on women in healthcare

The impact of the pandemic on women in healthcare

Healthcare workers have become the new heroes, or rather heroines, during the pandemic, as 85% of healthcare workers in the Czech Republic are women. The crisis has further exposed the problems associated with the difficulty of reconciling work in the health sector and caring for one's own family. Almost a third of nurses have children under the age of 12. The closure of schools and kindergartens, together with the recommendation not to use grandparental care because they belong to a risky age group, has confr…

Topics: Gender, Public health

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Extension of Working Lives in the Czech Republic: Employee Situation. Policy brief DAISIE project

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Extension of Working Lives in the Czech Republic: Employee Situation

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Czech Republic

Czech Republic

Topics: Gender, Work, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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"Do Your Research": COVID-19, post-socialist experience and the narrative of information independence among Czech Instagram influencers

The COVID-19 pandemics highlighted the role of social media influencers as political communicators and drew attention to the question of accountability of influencers and their overall role in the media ecosystem. The aim of the paper is to analyze the role of lifestyle Instagram influencers in shaping the public narrative about COVID-19 as an orchestrated political event aimed at curbing civic freedom in the Czech Republic with focus on two key elements: 1) the politicization of the domestic (space) on Instag…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Measurement Invariance of the SQWLi Instrument Over Time

The SQWLi questionnaire was developed for the long-term measurement of subjectively perceived quality of working life. The aim of this study is to test the instrument's measurement invariance between 2009 and 2019 and determine whether - despite the modifications made to the instrument over the years - the results remain comparable. Data from eight representative surveys of the economically active population in the Czech Republic were analysed (total N = 6909) using the MG CFA method (configural, metric, and s…

Topics: Research Methodology, Work

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

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Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Department: Gender & Sociology

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Children of the state? The role of pronatalism in the development of Czech childcare and reproductive health policies

The chapter explores how pronatalism has influenced the formation of reproductive and care policies in Czechia. It shows that the pronatalist framing has been selective in the historical as well as the present-day debates on reproduction. Although pronatalist framing presents itself as resting on statistical evidence of decreasing, low, or insufficiently rising fertility, the analysis shows that how the situation at a given time is defined has been more important than the actual birth rate (trend) itself. It a…

Topics: Gender, Care, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Podnikatelky?

Podnikatelky?

Kniha Podnikatelky? komplexně mapuje situaci podnikatelek v České republice. Vznikala jako jeden z hlavních výstupů tříletého projektu s názvem OSVČ jako prekérní práce, podpořeného z Operačního programu Zaměstnanost Evropského sociálního fondu. Jejím cílem je upozornit na specifická rizika, která mohou provázet podnikání žen v různých etapách života nebo v různých situacích (např. finanční nejistota, rizika časové flexibility apod.), a poukázat na fenomén nedobrovol…

Topics: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Article with impact factor

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The political economy of translocal social reproduction: cross-border care mobility in the Czech Republic

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rodičovství a partnerství gayů a leseb v českém právu

Rodičovství a partnerství gayů a leseb v českém právu

Kniha přináší komplexní vhled do vývoje a současné podoby českého práva ve vztahu k partnerství a rodičovství gayů a leseb, případně párů stejného pohlaví. Diskutována jsou témata jako partnerství, manželství, družství či rodina. Specificky se publikace zaměřuje na stejnopohlavní vztahy spojené s rodičovstvím (tzv. homoparentalitou) a na práva a povinnosti z nich vyplývající, případně na práva a povinnosti v těchto vztazích v důsledku nastavení legislativy chybě…

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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