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Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Czech Copreneur Orientations to Business and Family Responsibilities: A Mixed Embeddedness Perspective

PurposeThis paper aims to utilize a mixed-embeddedness approach to examine how state welfare policies, employment conditions and gender norms shape orientations to divisions of business and domestic labor among Czech copreneurs, i.e. romantic couples involved in businesses together.Design/methodology/approachTwelve copreneur couples were interviewed male and female partners were interviewed separately. Women’s narratives are centered in analyzing motivations for business, divisions of labor, orientation to b…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Sólo pro soprán: O ženách v české politice

Sólo pro soprán: O ženách v české politice

Kniha přispívá k diskusi o podmínkách a okolnostech politické participace žen v ČR. Vychází z aktuálních dat kvantitativní i kvalitativní povahy. Představuje teoretické přístupy k uchopení problematiky žen v politice, zaměřuje se na zastoupení žen v politice v českém kontextu a na jeho vývoj, na názory a postoje české veřejnosti na ženy v politice a nástroje jejich podpory a věnuje se také životním a pracovním drahám vrcholových političek. Analytickou část knih…

Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Published review

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Publication Type: Published review

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Rural Idyll Without Rural Sociology? Changing Features, Functions and Research of the Czech Countryside

Rural Idyll Without Rural Sociology? Changing Features, Functions and Research of the Czech Countryside

The development of the Czech countryside differs in many ways from trajectories typical for Eastern and Central European rural areas in the last 25 years. In our article, we discuss the nature of the ‘Czech exceptionalism’, with reference to three examples, namely population development, the dynamics of rural/agricultural labour markets and rural governance. Firstly, we describe the major driving forces behind rural development in Czechia over the past 25 years and how these forces are reflected in t…

Topics: City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Na vině je celý systém. Se Zuzanou Uhde o strachu z imigrantů

Topics: Globalization, Identity, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Quietly does it: Questioning assumptions about class, sustainability and consumption

Quietly does it: Questioning assumptions about class, sustainability and consumption

This paper questions assumptions about the relationship between class formation, sustainability and patterns of consumption. The empirical elements of the research are based upon qualitative and quantitative time-series research into food self-provisioning and ‘quiet sustainability’ in post socialist Central and Eastern Europe (Poland and the Czech Republic). It considers sustainable practices that are often considered to be taking place ‘in the wrong place and the wrong time’, i.e. they appear anomalo…

Topics: Globalization, Social Inequalities, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Biografie migrantek jako žitá kritika zneuznání

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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From women’s struggles to distorted emancipation: The interplay of care practices and global capitalism of care practices and global capitalism

This article develops a critical analysis of transformations of the idea and practice of women’s emancipation in late-modern Western society under the influence of globalizing advanced capitalism. It builds on analyses of feminist critical theory and critical globalization studies and argues that global capitalism initiates processes in which the practice of emancipation is distorted. Distorted emancipation refers to the social consequences of the marketization and commodification of areas of social life tha…

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Care

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Frame Against the Grain: Asymmetries, Interference, and the Politics of EU Comparison.

A new collection that analyses how exactly comparison -- as a particular type of social scientific practice -- is done, while assessing some of its opportunities and limitations. It features case studies of comparative practices that range from colonial architecture, to hacking communities, to ranking practices in hospitals and academia, while also examining the practical challenges of achieving comparison. This might include the need to collaborate in teams or to stretch comparisons across time and space.Over…

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Within-couple Financial Satisfaction in the Czech Republic: A Test of Income Pooling Hypothesis

This paper uses the national EU-SILC 2013 data to analyse the impact of the distribution of personal income between partners on reported financial well-being of couples in the Czech Republic. It focuses on partners in two life stages: couples raising children and couples with empty nests. On average, women contribute substantially less to the household budget than men and their financial satisfaction is slightly lower. Financial satisfaction of partners with children is not influenced by who brings the income…

Topics: Economy, Gender, Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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