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.
Topic: gender, sexuality
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.
Topic: gender, work, social inequalities
The article consists of an analysis of the influence of the EU enlargement on women's NGOs and women's groups in the Czech Republic. Mainly, processes of professionalization, project-orientation and reform-orientation of women's NGOs are analyzed as consequences of Czech Republic's accession to the EU.
Topic: gender
The new labour market model that evolved in the Czech Republic after 1989 and the family strategiesof women and men are two spheres that interact and overlap at various levels of society and in theindividual strategies of those involved. The changes to the circumstances surrounding labour marketparticipation that resulted from the economic, political and cultural changes in Czech society and
Topic: gender, work, family
The chapter offers an overview of different approaches to the problem of harmonization of work and family, going from the U. Beck´s theory of individualization of the society to contemporary feminist theories.
Topic: gender, work, family
The article deal with the historical development of the childcare facilities, analyses their availability, flexibility, affordability. It is focused on the parental acceptability of the facilities for children as well as the other working time arrangements facilitating combination of work and family lifes.
Topic: gender, care, work, family, social policy
This study analyse the strategies of the different actors involved at various levels of society: families, individuals (women and men), the companies and organisations that use the given policies, and the conditions and opportunities for combining work and family. In part this refers specifically to the individual strategies used to combine work and family commitments by women, who are still considered to be primarily responsible for running the family.
Topic: gender, work, family, public policy
Analyses of chances in the labour market (especially wages) in contex of no/having a child was done by the prevalent life cycle od women, e.g. by their age. The analyse of statistical data confirmes the enequalities between woman according to the period of nohaving a child and having a child and also in comparison with male population. The next part is focused to the higly qualified women and their chances and perspectives in the labour market.
Topic: gender, wages and incomes, work, parenting
The study is a sociological comparison of the work/life strategie of different cathegories of women based on thein work positron and family situation in the czech society dutiny the last 15 years.
Topic: gender, work, family
Zpráva z konference Rodina na prelome tisícročia seznamující s hlavními příspěvky. The report informing about the main conference papers.
Topic: gender, family
The study focuses on the motivations for going into business, which proved to be significantly differentiated according to gender, with women citing the possibilities for combining work and family responsibilities as one of the main motivations for going into business.
Topic: gender, human relations, work
The article is based on comparative analysis of data from the international longitudinal survey ISSP 1994 and 2002 focused on gender roles and family. Based on the analysis European countries were divided according to their inhabitants´ opinions on gender roles and working mothers.
Topic: gender, work, social policy
Authors focus on Czech women’s organizing in recent years within context of increasing pressure on organizations to professionalize and become project-and reform-oriented. They discuss reasons for and consequences of changes in funding and orientation that have accompanied European enlargement. Then, they turn to a closer look at the interplay between increasingly professionalized women’s NGOs and explicitly anti-institutional groups of anarchofeminists.
Topic: gender
Topic: gender, parenting, family
The article notifies about the conference focused on the role of power, politics and massmedia in strengthening of gender stereotypes.
Topic: gender, media, social inequalities
The process of the individualization of the society has already been in progress for several centuries. One of its consequences is the increase of differences among individuals, the advocacy of the individual interests instead of the collective ones and mostly the growth of the space for free choices and decisions. The second side of the increasing freedom is the growth of the insecurity. However, this process is irreversible.
Topic: gender, parenting, family
Vážené čtenářky, vážení čtenáři, letošní čtvrté číslo informačního čtvrtletníku Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum, které právě vychází, je číslem posledním, neboť výzkumný projekt, jenž jeho vydávání rámoval, končí.
Topic: gender, work, family
Topic: parenting
Topic: parenting
Eastern Europe has been recognized as a region that has experienced major socio-political and economic changes in the last decades. The impact of these transitions on families and their functioning has also been significant. The book fills the void in literature and provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of family issues in this region. The authors explain family process inthe particular country focusing on the historic, social and economic contexts and the impact they have on families
Topic: gender, parenting, family
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