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 61 - 70)
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 Union had significant effects on gender wage gaps. The central conclusion of our analysis is that within-job wage discrimination is a significant factor in the Czech labor market and that there were no substantive changes during the period studied.
The article deals with the phenomenon of the sexual harassment in the working place in the Czech Republic. From the theoretical perspective it views sexual harassment as one of effects of men’s symbolic power over women causing cultural misrecognition of women and at the same time as one of factors supporting economic inequality between men and women in western societies.
Authors examine insti¬tutional contexts, ideologies and practices that have sha¬ped citizenship of women in various socio-economic, ethnic and national groups in Czech society since 1940s. They challenge static descriptions of gender relations in the communist societies in Europe. The continuity of discourse, practices, and institutions before and after 1989 is highlighted, de¬monstrating how difficult it is for cultural and institutional changes to take place.
Author informs about the international conference Gendering Democracy in an Enlarged Europe and about international research project Enlargement, gender and governance that was closed by the conference in 2005 in Prague.
The focus in the following article lies on the interconnection between employment and care in the Czech Republic. To begin with we present the institutional framework for gender equality that has been introduced in the Czech Republic during the EUaccession period.
In this chapter the authors focus on the integration of foreigners into so-called ‘core’ institutions, which determine a migrant’s socioeconomic status, opportunities, and available resources. Special attention is given to the access to the social security system, to the health care system, to the education system, and last but not least to the labour market.
Článek se zaměřuje na diskusi mezi vedoucími směry současné feministické teorie. Na pozadí debaty ohledně konceptualizace vztahu mezi přerozdělováním a uznáním, neboli vztahu mezi rovností a diferencí se autorka snažila vyzdvihnout jak shody, tak rozpory jednotlivých stanovisek.
The article is a review of a book Mnohohlasem. Vyjednávání ženských prostorů po roce 1989, in which collective of authors is mapping the development of women oriented activism in the Czech Republic after the fall of communism in 1989.
The article analyses the most current myths regarding the sexual harassment: e.g. the myth of nonexistence and insignificancy, the myth of irrelevancy, the myth of subjectivity and selfhood, the myth of malfeasence. The negation of these mentioned myths is the aim of the analysis.
The author studies changes in availability and use of daycare services in Czech society in context of changes in female laborforce participation, gender relations, family policy and public debates on childcare, population decline and economic prosperity.The author claims that the current decline in daycare services is influenced not only by current socioeconomic trends but is truly embedded in the history of daycare services in the region.
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