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Introduction

Topics: European Union, Gender, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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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

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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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

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Gender & Sociology

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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

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Gender & Sociology

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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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Místa paměti

Místa paměti

This study refers to the research perception of inhabitants of border regions of Bavaria and western Bohemia. The analysis of the impacts of historical consciousness on the creation of regional identity is based on empirical survey of biographical identities, which was carried out in the regions of the Cyech Republic and Bavaria closed to the border, during the summer 2004.…

Topics: Identity, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Hranice v názorech občanů českého pohraničí s Bavorskem - Pak se zatáhla železná opona a bylo to

Hranice v názorech občanů českého pohraničí s Bavorskem - Pak se zatáhla železná opona a bylo to

This study refers to the research perception of inhabitants of border regions of Bavaria and western Bohemia. The analysis of the impacts of historical consciousness on the creation of regional identity is based on empirical survey of biographical identities, which was carried out in the regions of the Cyech Republic and Bavaria closed to the border, during the summer 2004.…

Topics: Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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"Doma" v pohraničí

"Doma" v pohraničí

This study refers to the research perception of inhabitants of border regions of Bavaria and western Bohemia. The analysis of the impacts of historical consciousness on the creation of regional identity is based on empirical survey of biographical identities, which was carried out in the regions of the Cyech Republic and Bavaria closed to the border, during the summer 2004.…

Topics: Identity, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Přeshraniční spolupráce a vzájemné vnímání Čechů a Němců v přímém sousedství

Přeshraniční spolupráce a vzájemné vnímání Čechů a Němců v přímém sousedství

This study refers to the research perception of inhabitants of border regions of Bavaria and western Bohemia. The analysis of the impacts of historical consciousness on the creation of regional identity is based on empirical survey of biographical identities, which was carried out in the regions of the Cyech Republic and Bavaria closed to the border, during the summer 2004.…

Topics: Identity, Interpersonal Relations, Religion and religiosity, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Regionální identita obyvatel českého západního pohraničí

Regionální identita obyvatel českého západního pohraničí

This study refers to the research perception of inhabitants of border regions of Bavaria and western Bohemia. The analysis of the impacts of historical consciousness on the creation of regional identity is based on empirical survey of biographical identities, which was carried out in the regions of the Cyech Republic and Bavaria closed to the border, during the summer 2004.…

Topics: Identity, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Otisky historie ve vědomí obyvatel pohraničí západních Čech (v kontextu česko-německých vztahů) - Dějiny jako zdroj regionální identity

Otisky historie ve vědomí obyvatel pohraničí západních Čech (v kontextu česko-německých vztahů) - Dějiny jako zdroj regionální identity

This study refers to the research into mutual perception of inhabitants of border regions of Bavaria and western Bohemia. The analysis of the impact of historical consciousness on the formulation of regional identity is based on empirical survey of biographical identities which was carried out within the regions of the Czech Republic and Bavaria closed to the border, during the summer 2004 (July-September).…

Topics: Identity, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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‘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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Sociologie náboženství

Sociologie náboženství

Introduction to the sociology of religion, which describes development, key problems and current state of the discipline. The authors deal, among others, with the issues of „invisible religion“, religious deprivatization and desecularization, ethnic religions, and other contemporary religious phenomena.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Česká sociologie náboženství v letech 1948-89

The paper analyses development of Czech sociology of religion (officially part of the scientific atheism) in the period of communism, which the author divides into three different stages. Although the main view is critical, certain Marxian authors contributed importantly to scientific understanding of religion, as did those sociologists that used to work in the so-called dissent or in the exile. …

Topics: History of Sociology, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Současný stav výzkumu českého nekatolictví 18. století

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Institucionální hranice českého tajného nekatolictví a počátků tolerančního protestantismu

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Čeští nekatolíci v 18. století. Mezi pronásledováním a náboženskou tolerancí

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Opium notně vyčichlé? Náboženské procesy pozdní moderny v západní a východní Evropě

The author presents a fundamental overview of developments in religion in Europe in the sekond half of the 20th century. He compares the situation in Western European countries and post-Communist countries, and, referring to the literature, analyzes some central trends. …

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Současné mezinárodní migrace a jejich studium

The problems associated with migration gain more significance in nowadays globalizedworld. The study introduces theoretical views and general information on migrant processesas well as description of the main life conditions of the immigrants and their families. Thefirst part of the study summarises main trends and knowledge of European and Americanstudies on migration and general review of European immigration policies. The second part isfocused on current situation of immigrants in the Czech Republic (CR). T…

Topics: Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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