The paper analyses changes in timing, patterns and motives of Czech pre-1989 and post-1989 mothers´ return to employment.
Topic: work, family, lifestyle
This article examines the electoral results of the Czech Green Party in the 2010 elections to the lower house of the Czech Parliament, placing those results in both historical and sociological perspective. In particular, the article analyzes the social bases of Green Party support in past parliamentary elections, and identifies reasons for the party’s substantial decline in electoral support in 2010.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)
The article examined relations between statistic housing financial affordability and demographic behavior in regions of the Czech Republic. The conducted analyses proved that the lower is housing affordability in region the higher is the average age of mothers and the lower is the total fertility rate. However, housing affordability influence more timing of the childbearing than the total fertility rate.
Topic: housing, regions, parenting, standard of living
The paper focuses on homelessness in the Czech Republic. The aim of the paper is to describe the causes of housing exclusion as well as the factors of successful social reintegration and re-housing.
Topic: housing, standard of living
This chapter takes a feminist-institutionalist approach to understanding post-communist family policy. It argues that in order to look at family policies from a feminist perspective, it is necessary to investigate how institutional arrangements influence policies that in turn structure gender relations.
Topic: gender, family
Topic: history of sociology, transformation
Cet article se propose de décrire brievement le systeme du logement social dans l’un des pays de la transition postcommuniste, la République tcheque. Dans une premiere partie, nous replacerons les réformes du logement dans les États de la transition dans leur contexte historique plus large. Les deux parties suivantes traitent de l’institutionnalisation du logement social, notamment en République tcheque, pour le logement municipal existant et neuf.
Topic: housing, social policy, transformation
Authors employ frame analysis to explain how feminist organizations, gender-conservative women’s orgs., migrant-oriented orgs. and Roma women’s groups in the Czech Republic frame their care claims. They identify five interpretative frames (gender equality frame, frame of the moral value of the family and the dignity of motherhood, work-centred frame, redistribution frame, and integration frame) and identify possibilities/barriers of cooperation/implementation of their claims.
Topic: gender, care
Drawing on 48 biographic narratives, I examine the decisions post-1989 Czech mothers made about when and how to combine caring for children with making a living.
Topic: care, work, family
To what extent and in what ways does work influence fertility plans? The issue of job instability influences mainly men, the issue of combining work and care pertains mainly women. The chapter explains the low involvement in parenthood of men with low education, the highest childlessness among university educated women, and later entry into parenthood among couples in whichthe man’s education is lower.
Topic: gender, work
The goal of this paper is to outline the main factors influencing the diverse consequences of the global economic crisis on housing and mortgage markets in two post-socialist economies—the Czech Republic and Hungary. In the former there was a mild decline of markets while in the latter there has been a depression of markets. The paper also contributes to the convergence and divergence debate on housing policies in Europe.
Topic: housing, economics, public policy
Topic: housing, public policy
The author argues that there were four critical junctures that institutionalized a specific path of childcare in the Czech Republic. This policy path established the norm that mothers stay at home with children for 3 years and it also led to one of the highest percentages of 4-to 5-year-old children in public care in Europe.
Topic: gender, care, education
European science policy turned its attention to gender equality at the end of the 20th century, influencing to a smaller or greater extent three Framework Programmes supporting European research and technological development (the fifth, sixth and seventh). Gender equality is also an important component of the current negotiations of the next framework programme titled Horizon 2002 for the period 2013-2020.
Topic: EU, gender, sociology of science
Topic: economics
Topic: gender
Topic: religion and religiosity
Topic: history of sociology
Topic: social policy
Topic: religion and religiosity
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