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 71 - 79)
The article focuses on changes in availability and use of childcare and pre-school facilities after the Second World War in the Czech society during different periods of communist regime and during the post-1989 era. It studies how they are embedded in context of women’s participation on the labour market, gender roles, social policies, fertility rates, public debates on care and fears of population decline.
The review of the book of two prominent personalities of the critical theory Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth presents their different approaches to the theory of justice in the reciprocal confrontation. Whereas Fraser proposes two-dimensional theory of justice that would combine theories of distributive justice and theories of recognition, Honneth suggests alternative approach to justice that redistribution struggles conceives as one of kinds of recognition struggles.
The authors of the article argue against the article by Martin Hájek, Jiří Kabele a Kateřina Vojtíšková „Zázemí“ a „bojiště“ v usilování o spravedlnost: textová analýza odborářské, feministické a lidskoprávní mediální komunikace. The contestation concerns mainly the construction of the feminist justice discourse for purposes of quantitative text analysis and its one-sided interpretation.
Article summarizes current legislative changes in family policy and their impacts on childcare in various groups of Czech population. Focus is placed on evaluation of spatial, time and financial accessibility and quality of public nurseries, kindergartens, company nurseries and kindergartens, privately paid nannies and inter-parental child minding.
Author describes Czech women’s civic organizing focused on gender equality and women’s rights since the WWII and explains its development in context of state socialist regime, foreign donors´ impact on the organizing during the socio-economic and political transformation of the first part of the 1990s, and current process of formalization of Czech women’s civic groups that has been brought by the period of Czech Republic’s preparation for the EU accession.
The chapter deals with the Trade Unions as the prominent actors in the labour market which should protect employees against diffrent types of discrimination as well as be helpful in solving issues relating to sexual harrasment in the workplace.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is an important issue not just in terms of the seriousness of cases but also in terms of the frequency of incidence and the inadequacy of recourse options. In the cases of sexual harassment the majority of the victims are women, and the majority of the initiators or culprits are men.
The article is a review of the book Social Critique in the Era of Globalization by Marek Hrubec and the collective of authors. The authors deal not only with the critical analysis of the contemporary global order and the situation of huge number of global poor and exploited but they also suggest possible institutional arrangements to solve social conflicts and profound economic injustice.
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