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 41 - 50)
The article concerns a review of American critical theorist Nancy Fraser and German critical theorist Axel Honneth. The authors gradually reply to each other in two steps and confront their approaches of justice.
The review presents the book by Nancy Fraser Stretching Radical Imagination which encompasses the articles representing her theoretical development from the two-dimensional theory towards the theory of postwesphalian democratic justice
The article concerns a review of American critical theorist Nancy Fraser and German critical theorist Axel Honneth. The authors gradually reply to each other in two steps and confront their approaches of justice.
Authors analyze division of unpaid work and care in dual-parent and mono-parent families with dependent children, and asses the impact of the unequal gender division of work and care on parents and their children.
In the article the author highlights the critical potential of the theatre performance Vagina Monologues written by Eve Ensler with regard to both gender justice and multiculturalism. Ensler adverts to the injustice that women face particularly by means of narrative while she aims to avoid the western imperialistic view and afford the space to women outside the western culture too.
The article studies cause of lower involvement of women in political functions in the Czech Republic. It focuses on following barriers of entry of women in political functions – institutional rules, functioning of political parties, attitudes of Czech public or public discourse.
The article focuses on the perception of the motherhood, family life and work in the lives of mothers as well as on how this perception affects their definition of a combination work and family.
The position of men and women on the Czech labour market is not equal. Many authors concerned with explanation of the reasons of the gender inequalities on the labour market emphasize the role of structural barriers and gender stereotypes. In this paper I am trying to answer the question whether it is either the existence of structural barriers or different attitudes of men and women towards work that is the cause of the obvious gender inequality on the Czech labour market.
In May 2006 I was working on a research project at Berkeley. There I met Arlie Hochschild, whose formal academic career as a professor of sociology at Berkely University for the past 35 years was about to end. I had the opportunity to visit one of her classes and discuss research methodology and ways of writing up results. We also spoke about the differences between American and Czech gender regimes.
We argue that despite the assumption that there was a cohesive ideology of care during the communist regime, changes in ideologies, institutional settings and practices of childcare came about in Czechoslovakia in different decades. Reasons for post-1989 childcare in Czech society (and other postcommunist countries contradicting declination of male breadwinner) are rooted in past.
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