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Co-creating Gender Equality in Czech Academia: External and Internal Factors
In the Czech Republic, gender equality in public higher education and research has been championed for over twenty years by the Centre for Gender and Science at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Nevertheless, concrete policies and measures have been slow in coming and they have always required protracted negotiations with the relevant stakeholders at the national level. In the past two years, the situation has changed significantly due to both external and internal circumstances. Externally, the introduction of g…
Topics: Gender, Education
Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2021. Historic Electoral Loss of the Left.
This report represents a contribution to the Political Data Yearbook, which is published yearly by European Journal of Political Research. Several important events occurred in Czech politics in 2021. The cabinet of Prime Minister Babiš primarily focused on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Four cabinet changes were made, two affecting the Health Minister and two affecting the Foreign Minister. The Constitutional Court repealed several sections of the electoral law governing the general election, leaving only a …
The Polls—Trends: Welfare Regimes and Support for Income Redistribution in Europe.
Income redistribution and changes in redistributive policies are highly contested issues that often have a bearing on societal debate and electoral competition. Using European Social Survey data, we trace trends in public attitudes toward income redistribution in 18 European countries from 2002 to 2019, a time period which included the Great Recession, the 2015 migrant crisis, and an increase in income inequality. Although attitudes toward income redistribution were relatively stable, trends presented by count…
Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2022: Parallel Crises Give the New Government No Time to Waste.
The war in Ukraine dominated Czech politics in 2022. The Cabinet of Petr Fiala militarily and politically supported the Ukrainian defence efforts against the Russian adversary. Fiala visited Ukraine twice in 2022 (being the first Western leader, along with the Slovenian and Polish prime ministers, to meet with Zelensky in Kyiv on 15 March). Senate and local elections occurred in the autumn. Fiala’s party (Civic Democratic Party, ODS) had the strongest showing in the Senate election, while the ANO party of th…
Využití víceúrovňových modelů při analýze kontextuálních efektů míry ekonomické aktivity na podporu přerozdělování v komparativních longitudinálních datech.
Tento článek analyzuje souvislosti mezi mírou ekonomické aktivity v evropských zemích a postoji k přerozdělování příjmů. Článek zároveň ukazuje, jak specifikovat víceúrovňový model při analýze kontextuálních efektů, představuje několik typů struktur náhodných efektů a možnosti centrování vysvětlujících proměnných v komparativních longitudinálních datech. U v čase měnících se kontextuálních proměnných, jako je například míra ekonomické aktivity, je kontextu…
Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2023. Legislative Battles: Pension Law Amendment and Opposition Obstructionism.
The 2023 Czech presidential elections, characterized by high turnout and the victory of retired General Petr Pavel in a run-off against former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, marked a significant shift in the country’s political landscape. These elections were marked by intense debates on candidates’ backgrounds and foreign policy orientations, highlighting voters’ preference for pro-Western ideals. Meanwhile, the Cabinet of Petr Fiala witnessed four ministerial changes affecting the Ministry of the Enviro…
Vynálezce a zlepšovatel. Drobné socialistické podnikání v mezích normalizačních plánů.
Zlepšovatelství, respektive takzvané zlepšovatelské hnutí představovalo před rokem 1989 součást snah o zlepšení výkonnosti československého hospodářství. Figurovalo v rámci představ o vědecko-technické revoluci a vědecko-technickém pokroku jako způsob, jak dynamizovat a posunout stagnující socialistickou hospodářskou soustavu na úroveň vyspělých kapitalistických ekonomik, a to prostřednictvím racionalizace a optimalizace průmyslové výroby a jejího řízení. I přes vzr…
Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
”Why I don’t want to be an academic anymore?” When academic identity contributes to academic career attrition.
The study focuses on academic career attrition in the context of neoliberal academia and science policies emphasizing the need for excellence and social responsibility in academic production. The goal is to understand the relation between the development of academic identity and attrition among those who have left the academic path up to five years after PhD completion, with acknowledgement of the effect that academic identity has on academic career ambitions. Based on 28 narrative interviews with former acade…
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Bariéry v systému pomoci obětem partnerského násilí.
Kvalitativní výzkum překážek, jež brání přeživším genderově podmíněného partnerského násilí toto násilí zastavit a účinně řešit i jeho dopady na sebe a své okolí poukázal na roztříštěnost systému pomoci a jeho častou faktickou nefunkčnost, která se zdá vyplývat z jeho vlastního nastavení. Výzkum ukázal častou bagatelizaci a hierarchizaci násilných projevů a potvrdil dříve konstatovanou omezenou schopnost systému násilí účinně zastavit. Výzkum se zaměřil…
Publication Type: Other Publication
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Who Gets heard/hurt in Gender-Based Domestic Violence Research: Comparing Ethical Concerns in Three Qualitative Research Designs.
Purpose: The study presents the ethical concerns the authors have identified as necessary to address for methodologically sound qualitative research with survivors of gender-based violence. The aim is to define questions that need to be addressed before research with this vulnerable and diverse group can be considered so that the threat of inflicting further harm is mitigated and the possible positive impact of research is increased. We outline and compare the merits and possible drawbacks of three different a…
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
How Does „The Share of the Pie“ Matter? European Empirics on the Financial Satisfaction of Partners.
This paper aims to extend the knowledge of the relationship between within-couple income distribution and partners’ financial satisfaction, using data from the EU-SILC 2013 for 15 European countries, for the first time including data from Eastern Europe. We find that men’s preferences typically concur with the traditional male-breadwinner family model, as husband’s satisfaction decreases with a larger female share of household income. In contrast, in nine countries, men’s satisfaction actually increase…
How do youth labor flows differ from those of older workers?
This chapter analyzes youth labor market dynamics, their structure, and their policy implications, focusing on selected European Union countries during the various stages of the Great Recession and comparing flows between labor market statuses for young people (aged 16–34 years) with those for prime-age individuals (aged 35–54 years). The main result is that young workers are more likely to move between employment and unemployment in both directions.…
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Economic and Religious Studies
Výzkum žáků s nedostatečnou znalostí vyučovacího jazyka v základních školách. Průběžná výzkumná zpráva.
The interim research report presents the findings of the first phase of the project, focusing on the education of pupils with insufficient proficiency in the language of instruction in primary schools and the transition of pupils from primary to secondary schools. The report provides the results of an online survey conducted in primary schools across five regions of the Czech Republic. The survey aimed to map the number of pupils with limited proficiency in the language of instruction and the level of support …
Topics: Education
Dilemmas of housing-asset-based welfare in the post-socialist context: the case of the Czech Republic.
In the Czech Republic, buying housing is regarded as a way of attaining financial security in old age. People are, however, wary about using Housing-Asset-Based Welfare instruments that would allow them to withdraw housing equity. This article explains the contradictions surrounding housing-equity release in the post-socialist context and the barriers and catalyst behind the wider use of two specific instruments – reverse mortgages and reverse schemes. The paper focuses on the generation of Czechs in their f…
D2.2 GenderSAFE - Needs Assessment Report Addressing Intersectionality, Precarity and Mobility.
This report has been prepared as part of Work Package 2 of the GenderSAFE project. It presents the results of a needs assessment related to the experiences of gender-based violence among groups at increased risk of gender-based violence, with a particular focus on intersectionality, mobility and precarity. These groups at increased risk of gender-based violence included especially women and researchers facing multiple intersectional inequalities; people from various disciplines working in remote research sites…
Publication Type: Other Publication
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Nadějné vyhlídky? Péče o starší z perspektivy osob pečujících ve formální péči.
V systému péče o starší se v České republice jako i v jiných evropských zemích prosazuje trend ke komodifikaci a marketizaci péče, k její decentralizaci a pluralizaci. Zavedením příspěvku na péči jako nástroje přímé platby za ni se mění postavení seniorů a seniorek v tomto systému i těch, kdo pečují. Zatímco důsledky zavedení nového modelu péče byly (přinejmenším částečně) zmapovány v oblasti neformální p…
Důvody, motivy a okolnosti bezdětnosti mužů
Téma bezdětnosti mužů není v českém prostředí doposud dostatečně zmapováno z perspektivy žité zkušenosti a reflexe této zkušenosti samotnými muži. Text si proto klade otázku, jak muži svou bezdětnost zvýznamňují/prožívají a interpretují z hlediska svých motivací, preferencí a voleb i vzhledem k podmínkám a okolnostem svých životů. Analýza vychází z problémově orientovaných rozhovorů uskutečněných s 12 bezdětnými muži různého věku a vzdělání, kdy se sedmi …
Bezdětnost mužů z perspektivy hegemonické maskulinity./Male childlessness from the perspective of hegemonic masculinity.
In contemporary (not only) Czech society, the share of childless persons is increasing. Research in the field of social sciences focuses mainly on explanation of female childlessness than male one. This text tries to at least partially fill the gap in research when focusing on male childlessness from the perspective of masculinity, resp. hegemonic masculinity. Thematic analysis of repeated problem-oriented interviews with 12 heterosexual men (of different age and education) focuses on explanation of the life e…
Czech Republic
The chapter deals with the path to a more equal involvement of both parents in care, housework and paid work within two heterosexual couples of different age in the Czech society, where gender-unequal division of duties in the sphere of family and private life prevails. The chapter identifies as one of the main sources of more egalitarian attitudes of married couples especially to care of their child/ren the men´s experiences from their families of origin. The chapter captures not only negotiations on the div…
Men’s Explanations for Being Childless, a dynamic perspective.
Research on childlessness in contemporary society still focuses mainly on women. This article conversely examines childlessness among men in Czechia – a European post-socialist country in which becoming a parent was a strong social norm before 1989. This article asks how men’s explanations for being childless or childfree change over time and what this says about changing norms attached to parenthood in different historical and social contexts. It draws on an analysis of 24 problem-centred interviews condu…
Parenting Desires and Sexual Identities
The paper asks how parenting desires are associated with the construction of sexual identity and what factors most influence whether gays/lesbians, bisexuals, and heterosexuals declaring same-sex attraction want to have (more) children. The subject has been explored mainly in the Western liberal and gay-family-friendly legislation and social environment so far. Our study was conducted in the Czech Republic, a CEE country where sexual minorities face strong legal and social barriers to non-heterosexual parentho…
The central European world of fatherhood policies: how individual attitudes mediate the norm of threeness in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Following Rush's suggestion to explore differences across cultures, our study compares the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Appyling Rush's discussion of how individual attitudes function as mediators, we analyse how attitudes mediate the norm of threeness. We interviewed 79 parents in both countries and our results show that despite the cultural differences between the countries, there is great support for the norm of threeness. Nevertheless, individual attitudes mediate between culture differently among men than…
Inovace a inovativní prostředí v ČR. Zpráva z kvalitativního výzkumu projektu Nápady do praxe
Jedná o výzkumnou zprávu z kvalitativného výzkumu zaměřeného na inovace a inovační prostředí v ČR. Analýza ukazuje, že inovační prostředí v ČR značně ovlivňuje otázka nastavení financování nápadů (z veřejných i soukromých finančních zdrojů), ale také nastavení procesů inovativnosti ve firmách. Výzkum dále ukázal, že oproti evorpskému standardu je v ČR velmi slabá spolupráce mezi soukromým a akademickým sektorem, a že není dostatečně nastavena legislativní …
Ženy a hospodářství
Jedná se o čtvrtou stínovou zprávu Peking 25+, která hodnotí implementaci strategických cílů mezinárodní Pekingské akční platformy v České republice. Kapitola Ženy a hospodářství hodnotí dosahování cílů v oblastech: zaměstnanost žen a mužů a faktory, které ovlivňují úroveň zaměstnanosti během životní dráhy, nerovné odměňování (jeho příčiny a důsledky) a vliv pandemie na zaměstnanost žen.This is the fourth shadow report Beijing 25+, which assesses the implementa…
From Strictness to Maternal Intuition? Parenting Styles in Czechia from a Historical Perspective.
This article analyses parenting styles on the basis of thirty-three narrative interviews with mothers from Czechia who raised their children between the 1950s and 1990s. This comparison of different generations has revealed a shift from authoritarian to authoritative parenting styles, including a move from an emphasis on independence, obedience, and the provision of basic physical needs to more child-centered parenting emphasizing an emotional relationship with the child, negotiation, and the child’s psychol…
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