| Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.

Single motherhood in sub-Saharan Africa has received surprisingly little attention, although it is widespread and has critical implications for children’s wellbeing. Using survival analysis techniques, we estimate the probability of becoming a single mother over women...

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The legacy of equality and the weakness of law: Within-Job Gender Wage Inequality in the Czech Republic

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Authors: Křížková, Alena, Penner, Andrew, M., Petersen, Trond

Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic in the years 1998, 2002, and 2004, we examine whether the introduction of legislative measures for gender equality connected with the accession to the European Unio...

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Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods lifecourse research

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Authors: Dudová, Radka, Hana Hašková, Jana Klímová Chaloupková

This article explores the relationships between partnership trajectories and having an only child. Few studies have focused on one-child families, even though in many countries having just one child is the main factor driving sub-replacement fertility levels. Little is known espe...

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Obedient mothers, healthy children: communication on the risks of reproduction in state-socialist Czechoslovakia

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Authors: Dudová, Radka, Hašková, Hana

The article analyses medical communication in popular media relating to the risks in reproduction in the state-socialist Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 and shows how it used emotions as an instrument to control women’s reproductive behaviour. In particular, we use an approa...

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Mýtus čtvrtý: Pro děti je přirozené, aby se svou matkou zůstavaly doma až do věku třílet

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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Steven Saxonberg

The chapter reveals that the myth that children below the age of three do not benefit from quality daycare is not based on current scientific knowledge and that the myth does not exist in all countries.

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Rodičovství a práce v životě migrujících žen

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Authors: Víznerová, Hana

The chapter is based on a qualitative study of Ukraine immigrants – mothers living in the CR. It analyses the barriers that these women encounter on the labour market in the Czech Republic and the ways they realise their motherhood.

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Mimomanželská plodnost: individuální charakteristiky žen a vliv regionu

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Authors: Hamplová, Dana, Blanka Řeháková

This volume is devoted to the subject of non-marital fertility in the Czech Republic during the period between 1990 and 2005.

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Rozvod a otcovství v České republice

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Authors: Dudová, Radka

The objective of this publication is to contrast different ways of looking at the reality of parenting and child care after divorce or separation and show how multifaceted this important social phenomenon truly is. The study begins by introducing readers to the subject of post-di...

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Kde a co se můžeme dozvědět o manželské a nemanželské plodnosti

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Authors: Hamplová, Dana

The book concentrates on the non-marital fertility in the Czech Republic since 1989. After the description of demographic development, chapters ask following questions. What are attitudes towards out-of-wedlock childbearing? To what extend live unmarried mothers alone? What is th...

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Představy mladých lidí o manželství a rodičovství

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Authors: Fialová, Ludmila, Dana Hamplová, Milan Kučera, Simona Vymětalová

The book is based on an empirical survey "Young Genderation 1997" concerning attitudes towards the family, parenthood and partnership of young single people between 18-30 years of age. Besides the attitudestowards marriage, parenthood and ideal anad expected number of c...

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Práce jako řešení? Strategie obživy osamělých matek v ČR

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Authors: Dudová, Radka

Mothers as heads of one-parent families become very often the only breadwinners for their families, while still being the primary carers for their children. This leads to the worsening of the economical situation of their families. The results of my research presented in this art...

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Společná a střídavá výchova - debata plná rozporů

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Authors: Radimská, Radka

Číslo bulletinu Gender – rovné příležitosti – výzkum, které se vám nyní dostává do rukou, shrnuje několik na první pohled spíše různorodých témat. Tato témata spojuje problematika rovných příležitostí žen a mužů v souvislosti se vstupem České republiky do Evropské uni...

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Neprovdané matky na trhu práce

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Authors: Soukupová, Eva

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Jak se rodí v organizaci

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Authors: Dudová, Radka

The book under review offers an anthropologic analysis of the culture of Czech hospital maternity wards. It attempts to open a "middle way" in the discourse, without putting in conflict the medical and the natural concept of childbirth.

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