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Souvislosti proměn pracovního trhu a soukromého, rodinného a partnerského života

Souvislosti proměn pracovního trhu a soukromého, rodinného a partnerského života

This volume looks at the risks affecting the private life of individuals, risks that have been ushered in by changes in the labour market, and it examines whether the shape of the family is changing in the Czech Republic and what groups are most affected by and who most at risk from these changes. The authors also examine the ways in which work life and the private or intimate sphere interact and how individuals cope with the effects of one sphere on the other.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Work, Parenting, Family, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Pracovnice, manažerky, podnikatelky: kombinace pracovního a rodinného života

Pracovnice, manažerky, podnikatelky: kombinace pracovního a rodinného života

The study is a sociological comparison of the work/life strategie of different cathegories of women based on thein work positron and family situation in the czech society dutiny the last 15 years. On one side gender inequalities and discrimination of women on the kanout market ar directly related to the work/life balance issue apriori defined as „women´s problem“ and on the other side the need or strategy of work/life balance is not the only one basis of the unequal treatment of women on the labour market…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Možnosti uplatnění žen (a mužů) na trhu práce v souvislosti s bez/dětností

Možnosti uplatnění žen (a mužů) na trhu práce v souvislosti s bez/dětností

Analyses of chances in the labour market (especially wages) in contex of no/having a child was done by the prevalent life cycle od women, e.g. by their age. The analyse of statistical data confirmes the enequalities between woman according to the period of nohaving a child and having a child and also in comparison with male population. The next part is focused to the higly qualified women and their chances and perspectives in the labour market.…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Vliv politik a podmínek pro kombinaci práce a rodiny na aktéry sociálních vztahů

Vliv politik a podmínek pro kombinaci práce a rodiny na aktéry sociálních vztahů

This study analyse the strategies of the different actors involved at various levels of society: families, individuals (women and men), the companies and organisations that use the given policies, and the conditions and opportunities for combining work and family. In part this refers specifically to the individual strategies used to combine work and family commitments by women, who are still considered to be primarily responsible for running the family. Contemporary society views the issue of the relationship …

Topics: Gender, Work, Family, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Politiky, čas a peníze

Politiky, čas a peníze

The article deal with the historical development of the childcare facilities, analyses their availability, flexibility, affordability. It is focused on the parental acceptability of the facilities for children as well as the other working time arrangements facilitating combination of work and family lifes.…

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Kombinace práce a rodiny a sociologická teorie

Kombinace práce a rodiny a sociologická teorie

The chapter offers an overview of different approaches to the problem of harmonization of work and family, going from the U. Beck´s theory of individualization of the society to contemporary feminist theories.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Kombinace pracovního a rodinného života v ČR: politiky, čas, peníze a individuální, rodinné a firemní strategie

Kombinace pracovního a rodinného života v ČR: politiky, čas, peníze a individuální, rodinné a firemní strategie

The new labour market model that evolved in the Czech Republic after 1989 and the family strategiesof women and men are two spheres that interact and overlap at various levels of society and in theindividual strategies of those involved. The changes to the circumstances surrounding labour marketparticipation that resulted from the economic, political and cultural changes in Czech society andthe effects of a global labour market have created a dynamic foundation, which has altered the entireatmosphere of societ…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Práce a péče v reprodukčních plánech bezdětných třicátníků a třicátnic

Práce a péče v reprodukčních plánech bezdětných třicátníků a třicátnic

What factors influence fertility plans of young childless men and women? Opportunities to engage in other activities than parenting and the change of ideal age for entering parenthood legitimate postponement of childbearing. Postponement of childbearing becomes a factor promoting childbearing being considered in relation to other aspects of one’s life though. …

Topics: Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Diskursy, instituce a praxe péče o děti do tří let ve francouzsko-české komparativní perspektivě

Diskursy, instituce a praxe péče o děti do tří let ve francouzsko-české komparativní perspektivě

The article offers a comparison of the development of institutions of care for children under the age of three in France and in the Czech Republic. It explains the differences in the forms of institutions, policies and the level of statesupport using a comparative analysis of the discourses of childcare that have existed in the two countries since the end of the Second World War. Expert discourses in particular were found to have an important role in the development of institutions and policies: psychological …

Topics: Care, Parenting, Social Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Why did distinct types of dual-earner models in Czech, Slovak and East German societies develop and persist?

Why did distinct types of dual-earner models in Czech, Slovak and East German societies develop and persist?

We examine pre1989 and post1989 work-care models in Czech, Slovak and East German societies. Once problems of the modernized gender model emerged, Czechoslovakia and GDR set two distinct policy paths and differences in work-care practices and values emerged. Based on the institutional and cultural legacy, we explain why the post1989 transition period was accompanied by continuity in work-care models and substantive changes evolved only then, in a period of stability.…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rozdělení domácích prací a péče o děti v rodině

Rozdělení domácích prací a péče o děti v rodině

This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…

Topics: Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Reprodukční plány a realita rané péče o děti

Reprodukční plány a realita rané péče o děti

This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…

Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Organizace a zvládání pracovního a rodinného života současných rodičů

Organizace a zvládání pracovního a rodinného života současných rodičů

This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rodiče na trhu práce - reálné možnosti i hypotetické volby

Rodiče na trhu práce - reálné možnosti i hypotetické volby

This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Pracovní a rodinné role a jejich kombinace v životě českých rodičů: plány versus realita

Pracovní a rodinné role a jejich kombinace v životě českých rodičů: plány versus realita

This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Výzkumná sonda do světa rodičovství a bezdětnosti v časopisech životního stylu pro muže

Výzkumná sonda do světa rodičovství a bezdětnosti v časopisech životního stylu pro muže

Men´s and women´s magazines use biological explanations of reproductive behavior and expect men and women to become mothers and fathers once in their life. Women´s magazines stress value of motherhood because of motherhood itself (mothering as well as becoming a mother). Men´s magazines conceptualize fatherhood as a part of living in heterosexual partnership rather than (a value of) fathering.…

Topics: Gender, Media, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rodičovství a bezdětnost ve vybraných časopisech pro ženy a pro muže

Rodičovství a bezdětnost ve vybraných časopisech pro ženy a pro muže

This study examines whether and in what way parenthood and childlessness are reflected in the gender-specific media targeting men and women in Czech society. The study presents the results of a qualitative and a quantitative analysis of selected women’s magazines and a qualitative study of selected men’s lifestyle magazines published in the Czech Republic after 1989, that is, during a period when important changes in reproductive behaviour have been under way in the population.…

Topics: Gender, Media, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Nastavení sociálních politik, odborný diskurs a "správná" péče o děti - srovnání České republiky a Francie.

Nastavení sociálních politik, odborný diskurs a "správná" péče o děti - srovnání České republiky a Francie.

The article offers a comparison of social policies and institutions of care for children younger three years in the Czech Republic and France. The explanation of the differences is found (among other things) in the different development of expert discourses. The discourse thus impacts strongly on the development of institutions.…

Topics: Care, Parenting, Social Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The Conditions of Parenthood in Organisations: An International Comparison

The paper focuses on organisations and the conditions for working parents in terms of combining work and care and how those conditions are set up and negotiated in organisations. The research draws on three case studies comparing pairs of companies active in the Czech Republic and in one of the following countries – Germany, France, and Sweden – in the field of engineering. The goal is to explore in depth the conditions that Czech working parents are faced with and that derive from the organisational proce…

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rodiče na trhu práce: mezi prací a péčí

Autorky v článku mapují teoretické argumenty genderové dimenze sociálního státu. Navrhují tři integrální dimenze konceptualizace rodičovství v české společnosti a na trhu práce: 1) právo být rodičem a právo pracovat, 2) rovnost či nediskriminaci v rodičovství, 3) příležitost dosáhnout kombinace pracovního a soukromého života. In this article the authors map the theoretical arguments on the gender dimension of the welfare state. They propose three integral dimensions of conceptu…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Care, Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Záhada vědeckých příloh poodhalena! Obraz vědy v přílohách deníků Mladá fronta Dnes, Hospodářské noviny a Lidové noviny

Záhada vědeckých příloh poodhalena! Obraz vědy v přílohách deníků Mladá fronta Dnes, Hospodářské noviny a Lidové noviny

Based on expert interviews conducted in autumn 2004 we discuss in this publication processes which are currently shaping science and research – the emphasis on economic aspects of knowledge production and commercialization of research results efforts to preserve the traditional perceptions of science as a sphere of its own controlled only by research communities the functioning of journalists as mere translators of science to society but not as a critical voice translating or presenting or confronting scienc…

Topics: Media, Sociological Data, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Zaostřeno na vědu - komunikace vědy v médiích

Zaostřeno na vědu - komunikace vědy v médiích

Based on expert interviews conducted in autumn 2004 we discuss in this publication processes which are currently shaping science and research – the emphasis on economic aspects of knowledge production and commercialization of research results efforts to preserve the traditional perceptions of science as a sphere of its own controlled only by research communities the functioning of journalists as mere translators of science to society but not as a critical voice translating or presenting or confronting scienc…

Topics: Media, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Věda jako kolektivní experiment

Věda jako kolektivní experiment

Based on expert interviews conducted in autumn 2004 we discuss in this publication processes which are currently shaping science and research – the emphasis on economic aspects of knowledge production and commercialization of research results efforts to preserve the traditional perceptions of science as a sphere of its own controlled only by research communities the functioning of journalists as mere translators of science to society but not as a critical voice translating or presenting or confronting scienc…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Věda jako věc veřejná: vědní politiky a média

Věda jako věc veřejná: vědní politiky a média

Based on expert interviews conducted in autumn 2004 we discuss in this publication processes which are currently shaping science and research – the emphasis on economic aspects of knowledge production and commercialization of research results efforts to preserve the traditional perceptions of science as a sphere of its own controlled only by research communities the functioning of journalists as mere translators of science to society but not as a critical voice translating or presenting or confronting scienc…

Topics: Media, Civil Society, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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"Childfree_zone" - celosvětová internetová diskuze bezdětných

"Childfree_zone" - celosvětová internetová diskuze bezdětných

The study examines the phenomenon of voluntary and involuntary childlessness, focusing in particular on its occurrence in Czech society. The aim of the study is to analyse childlessness (the current increase in the number of people who remain childless, the decline in fertility, and the postponement of childbearing) in Czech society in the context of a) how these phenomena are reflected professionally and in the Czech media, b) international demographic data on childlessness, and c) how these phenomena and chi…

Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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