The subject of this sociological project is support for the social acceptance of the institutional mechanisms designed for the enforcement of the principle of egual opportunities for men and women in the public sphere. The project provides targeted user groups with access to research results, fosters public understanding and social confidence in topics of gender, and develops effective social intervention in gendered social practise. The project output will evaluate the impact of this intervention on taboo issues and on the process of enforcing a scientific line of reasoning in social discourses relating to important issues in the lives of Czech women and men, and will critically assess the real benefit in the transfer of gender-related findings, data and research studies. The research focus of this applied project corresponds to the necessity of strengthening the credibility and importance of science and research for addressing pressing and socially urgent issues in the contemporary world.
Project publications (total 79, displaying 21 - 30)
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.
The chapter deals with the degradation of parental leave if taken as „vacation“ and the neglected role of fathers in upbringing and caring for young children.
The article analyses the shape and the impacts of the reform of parental allowance in the CR in 2008. It shows that the reform will lead to increasing of social inequalities and will disadvantage certain groups of population, for. ex. lone mothers.
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The author addresses in the article the debate concerning the application of quotas for the assertion of equal representation of men and women in politics. She based her argument on the theory of Nancy Fraser and Iris Young. With reference to some practical and empirical mentions she argues for efficacy of quotas for assertion of parity of participation between women and men.
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 article show further the barriers that women encounter while trying to provide for their families and the values that intervene in their work life choices.
The book examines legislative and institutional framings of childcare and its gendered impacts in the Czech Republic in the context of current policies of care in other European countries. The aim is to introduce results of analyses of empirical data on childcare to public debates and to point on several conceptual mistakes in current policy of care in the Czech Republic.
What factors influence fertility plans of young childless men and women? Opportunities to engage in other activities than parenting and the change of ideal age for entering parenthood legitimate postponement of childbearing. Postponement of childbearing becomes a factor promoting childbearing being considered in relation to other aspects of one’s life though.
The paper is a review of the book “Work-lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century“ written by Catherine Hakim (Oxford university Press, 2000).
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