The project concentrates on the phenomenon of breadwinning in the Czech Republic after 1989 which has not been so far systematically researched in Czech sociology and which is firmly linked to many areas of social reality, especially to the organization of individuals’ private life, functioning of the family as a social institution and gender relations among partners in the family. ‘Breadwinning’ has not been problematised in sociology or in public discourse although it is a socially constructed phenomenon which influences the formation, reproduction and legitimation of social and gender inequalities in the family and on the labour market. Understanding the ways in which breadwinning is constructed in contemporary society may help unveil the nature of these inequalities and the resulting power relations.
Publikace vydané v rámci projektu (celkem 17, zobrazeno 11 - 17)
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 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.
Authors analyze division of unpaid work and care in dual-parent and mono-parent families with dependent children, and asses the impact of the unequal gender division of work and care on parents and their children.
The paper explores the construction of work and care in various contexts of breadwinning in the Czech Republic. It looks into what importance mothers of small children attribute to work and care in various family arrangements from the perspective ofbreadwinning. The paper also asks what impact various family set-ups have on the possibility for women’s self-fulfilment andrelatedly gender equality in the family and beyond.
This paper focuses on the practices and the construction of provider and carer roles in families after divorce or separation in which the parental couple has joint physical child ustody, examining the issue from the perspective of gender equality and thepower inequalities.
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