PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Alena Křížková is a senior researcher and a head of Gender & Sociology Department at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She has experience with work as a team leader and as an independent expert in various projects focused on gender equality and policy analysis and evaluation. Since 1998 Alena Křížková has been the leader or participated in 30 scientific projects including 7 projects of expert appointments for the European Commission. Actually she is the national correspondent for the European Commission in the Network of experts on employment and gender equality issues and Network of experts in gender equality, social inclusion, health and long-term care.

In 2009 she has been awarded the Otto Wichterle premium for outstanding young researchers of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

She is conducting research and publishes widely on the economic independence of women, gender wage gap, gender in organizations, management and entrepreneurship, women and citizenship, gender and social inclusion, gender in care and family policies, gender-based violence, gender in science and research etc. She publishes scientific articles, (for example European Sociological Review, Czech Sociological Review and Transitions), book chapters and expert reports on the issues above. She is the author of a monograph Life Strategies of Women and Men in the management and/of Entrepreneurship (2007, in Czech), she is the co-author of Management of Gender Relations, Position of Women and Men in Organization (published in Czech in 2004, Management Press) and a co-editor of  Work and Care: Changes to “Parental Leave” in the Czech Republic and the Family Policy Context in the European Union (2008 in Czech with a chapter of European Commissioner Vladimír Špidla), of In Multiple Voices: Negotiating Women's Spaces after 1989 (published in Czech with English abstracts in 2006, Institute of Sociology, AS) and of Sexualized Reality of the Working Relations (published in Czech in 2006) and other monographs and studies. She is teaching courses on gender and the labour market at the Charles University in Prague.

Alena Křížková received her degree in sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and has been a visiting scholar at these universities: in 2009 at Arizona State University, USA and University of the West of England, UK, in 2007– 2008 at Oslo University, Norway, in 2006 at University of California, Berkeley, USA, in 2004-2005 Marie Curie Fellowship at IRESCO, CNRS in Paris, France, in 2004 at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Rutgers University, USA, in 2003 with support of the French government at EHESS in Paris, France, in 2002 under the Research Training Network, EC at Université Toulouse-Le Mirail, France.