Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 3-15 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.015 
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1) | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.004
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1) | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.003
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1) | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.008
Recenze knihy: Orgad, S. 2019. Heading Home: Motherhood, Work and the Failed Promise of Equality. New York: Columbia University Press.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1) | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.001
Recenze knihy: Hearn, Jeff, Parkin, Wendy. 2021. Age at work: Ambiguous boundaries of organizations, organizing and ageing.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1) | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.011
Recenze knihy: Acquaviva, K. D. 2017. LGBTQ – Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care. New York: Harrington Park Press.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 178-200 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.007
Later-life learning continues to remain well under the radar as far as feminist theorising and empirical research are concerned. This exclusion is surprising considering that older women make up the majority of learners in later-life learning programmes. This essay has three objectives: to present the available knowledge on older women and learning given that this information remains undocumented; to apply a feminist critique to the mainstream literature on older adult learning, with a special reference to the University of the Third Age (U3A) and Women's Institutes (WI); and to promote an understanding of the similarities and diversities of older...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 148-177 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.006
The article explores the meanings of gender, embodiment, and ageing in the work of public transport drivers. This profession is been strongly masculinised: men outnumber women and driving has traditionally been understood as men's work. The article asks the following questions: how have the working conditions in this profession changed and what does this mean for the people who perform it and for their interpretations of the work? What does the process of prolonging working lives on one side and technological development on the other bring to this profession? This is a case study of a 'man's job' in the situation where the working population is ageing...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 127-147 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.010
This article deals with the phenomenon of grandfamilies. It sets out to determine what the existing literature reports on the issue of grandparents in the position of surrogate parents, and to introduce the topic of grandparents as it has been examined in international sociological studies published in the past decade, thereby embedding the topic into the sociology of ageing and the sociology of the family. It also identifies key concepts and gaps in research. It employs the scoping review method, and the articles assessed in the scoping review were analysed according to their country of origin, research methods, and the concepts they employed....
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 108-126 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.009
This paper explores the relationships of affection and duty that elderly Roman mothers established with their adult daughters and sons. Analysing the written sources, it shows what duties adult children had towards their mothers in consideration for the care received during childhood, and how mothers demanded this support. The paper looks at the affective relationships between mothers and their offspring and highlights the importance of older women for the cohesion of the Roman family. This study draws five main conclusions. First, that care practices performed by Roman mothers gave them a privileged position in old age. Second, that the survival of...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 78-106 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.014
This paper shows that the universal female survival advantage evades all the countries of South Asia, except Sri Lanka. Consequently, contrary to the global trend, these countries have more older men than older women in their populations. In view of this, the paper first develops a theoretical model (using the life-course perspective) to explain the mechanisms behind the possible persistence of this female deficit, i.e. the (older) missing women phenomenon, and highlights why this model may apply to South Asian countries. This discussion addresses the higher mortality of females' compared to males at each stage of the life course that culminate in...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 59-77 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.012
Although important demographic shifts have generated both an interest and profound transformations in sociocultural interpretations of ageing and old age, the experience of growing older is still perceived negatively and is often measured according to how successfully people adapt to the current Western ideals of later life. In the light of recent research on cultural and literary representations of ageing, this article critically addresses contemporary American writer Erica Jong's mid-life and later works from feminist and gender perspectives. It shows how the author's writings contest the narrative of decline and ageism and incorporate some aspects...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 36-58 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.013
The concept of social exclusion is widely used in academia and social policy discourse in European countries. However, one of the constituents of social exclusion, namely, exclusion from social relationships, remains unclear and underdeveloped both conceptually and empirically. Moreover, knowledge on the patterns of exclusion from social relationships among men and women in later adulthood is even less advanced. Therefore, we developed a multidimensional scale for measuring an individual's level of embeddedness in social relationships and examined the gender patterns of social embeddedness. We applied latent class analysis to survey data collected...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2021, 22 (1): 16-35 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2021.005
Being socially connected is a universal human need, but a substantial number of older men and women are or become excluded from these connections in later life. Exclusion from social relations (ESR) is unwanted as it undermines people's ability to lead a healthy, active, and independent life. Policies to reduce this form of exclusion have been limited in effectiveness, due in part to a broader lack of knowledge about the dynamics of social exclusion in older ages and the intersection of social exclusion with gender constructions. To advance our understanding of ESR in later life, we develop a heuristic model based on theories and previous empirical...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 13-31 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.010
Innovative leaps in digital technology alongside changing gender roles in society may open a window of opportunity to renegotiate gendered work patterns. The main question addressed in this article is the extent to which digitalisation holds the potential to reorganise gendered work relations, and if so why. First, we elaborate on the interrelation between work and gender in capitalist societies. Our main argument is that digitalisation is shifting the boundaries between paid and unpaid labour with far-reaching repercussions for women and men. Second, we will identify core digitalisation processes capable of overcoming or changing gendered work patterns....
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 3-12 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.009
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 131-134
How does the digitalisation of work change gender relations? And how can digitalisation create new opportunities for more gender justice? These are the questions that were addressed at the conference ‘Wandel der Arbeit durch Digitalisierung = Wandel der Geschlechterverhältnisse?’ (‘Change in Work through Digitalisation = Change in Gender Relations?’), which was organised by the ‘Network for Labour Research NRW’ as a joint event of the Düsseldorf Research Institute for Social Development and the Dortmund Social Research Centre on 19 May 2019 in Dortmund. The organisers, Dr Saskia Freye and Ellen Hilf, welcomed...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 127-130
The world of work is changing rapidly. While this may not be a new discovery, it is still of high political, economic, cultural, and social relevance. The biggest trends include globalisation, transnationalisation, the digitalisation of work, and the flexibilisation of work with new standards for employment (e.g. part-time work, teleworking, positions with changing workplaces, virtual teamwork). In modern societies, the expectation of being geographically mobile, spatially flexible, and available online at all times is increasing. As a consequence, the formerly clear boundaries between the areas of work, family, and private life are becoming increasingly...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 123-127
The theme of the 40th Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) held this year was ‘Society under Pressure’. It examined various tensions in society such as the tension ‘between rich and poor ..., between political camps and ideologies, between religions and cultural forms, between (re)emerging nations, regions and transnational organisations, between society and nature, between town and country, between generations, and ... between the sexes’.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 118-123
Hana Havelková (1949–2020) was one of the most influential figures of her generation. An internationally renowned thinker and the author of more than seventy publications in Czech, English, and German, she formulated many original and complex arguments about feminist political philosophy, gender theory of culture and society, feminist epistemology, women in science, and the representation of women in politics, media,and public discourse. After the Velvet Revolution, she significantly enriched feminist theorising between ‘East’ and ‘West’, helped to create the conceptual apparatus for a gender analysis of state socialism,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 109-117
O’Neal, C. 2016. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases inequality and Threatens Democracy. New York: Crown Publishers.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 104-109
Scholz, T. 2017. Uberworked and Underpaid. How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy. Cambridge, Malden: Polity.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 86-102 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.014
In this special issue, we want to capture different country perspectives on the connection between the digitalisation of work and gender relations. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has suddenly found itself in an exceptional situation that had not been foreseen in our editorial project but proved to be relevant for gendered work patterns and digitalisation. Digital systems and devices have seemed to offer the best solutions to the situation of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns all over the world. It has become apparent, however, that not everyone has equal access to the internet and technical knowledge of computing, and that...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 59-84 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.011
The rise of the platform economy has brought about crowdwork as a new form of flexible work where individuals solve specific problems or provide specific services or products in exchange for payment via online platforms. Survey data for crowdworkers in Germany collected by the 'Digital Future' collaborative research unit are used to compare gender inequalities in hourly pay among crowdworkers sampled from a marketplace platform and a micro-task platform. The results reveal that fathers earn higher hourly pay than mothers and childless women and men, but only on the marketplace platform. These differences can partly be explained by fathers being better...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 32-58 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.013
In Germany, like in many other countries, much of the research on technological changes and their consequences has been devoted to investigating the field of industrial production. A shortcoming of this research is that many female-dominated occupations are excluded per se from consideration. However, whether and to what extent men's and women's perceptions of technological changes in their workplace differ is an important subject of debate. This article addresses the following questions: To what extent are men and women experiencing changes in the technologies of their workplace? Are women less likely to experience such changes? Do men and women anticipate...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 199-203
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 195-198
Recenze knihy Wiesner, A. Jediná jistota je změna
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 192-195
Review of book Kasanda, A. Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 186-191
Review of book Namuggala, V. F. Childhood, Youth Identity, and Violence in Formerly Displaced Communities in Uganda
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 182-186
Review of book Shackel, R., Fiske, L. (eds.) Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice. Transformative Approaches in Post-Conflict Settings
