Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research, 2008 (vol. 9), issue 2
Marginalizované skupiny žen (a mužů)

Editorial

Marginalizované skupiny žen (a mužů)

Hana Maříková, Marek Hrubec

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2)

Rovné příležitosti

Men On the Margins: The Systematic Discrimination of Young Men with Low Education?

Iva Šmídová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 22-27  

The text examines school failure and the underachievement of boys in the light of the wider context of gendered, un/equal opportunities in the education system and process. Recent findings from international research reports are raised in a discussion to confirm or refute theories of the marginalization of boys and young men. Based on relevant Czech statistical data, the article contributes to opening up Czech sociological debate on gendered educational and life courses.

Ageing as a Gendered Experience: Marginalization and the Agency of Ageing Women

Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 28-36  

Ageing is process that is always gendered. Gender shapes the life biography and the norms and expectations that are imposed on individuals as they age. On the other hand, the experience of ageing affects the mechanism of creating and negotiating gender identity. This article critically discusses debates surrounding gender inequalities in old age. These debates often focus on older women as a group that is highly disadvantaged owing to the combined effects of sexism and ageism. This article critically discusses this "problem of old women" and shows alternative views of women's experiences of ageing. It highlights the necessity to understand age and...

The gender files

Where Inequalities Intersect: Gender, Class and Race/Ethnicity

Marta Kolářová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 1-9  

This article focuses on the intersection of gender, class and racial/ethnic inequalities. The intersection theory draws on the feminist critique of traditional class theory and on the challenge to feminism posed by ethnic women. The article develops thinking about various configurations of the intersection of inequalities and addresses mainly the case of marginalized women. However, the argument goes that the intersection of gender, class and racial/ethnic inequalities is not just a matter for disadvantaged groups because it has an impact on all groups in various relations. Class, gender and race/ethnicity should be understood as interlocked systems...

Gender and Development: What Keeps Us Apart, What Keeps Us Together

Ondřej Horký

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 10-21  

While gender has gained serious credit on the international development research and policy agenda, this is not reflected in Czech development studies. Likewise, the situation of women living in the developing world has been tackled by Czech gender studies only occasionally. This lack of attention from both Czech academia and Czech civil society is owing to the slow reconstruction of both interdisciplines during the transition and to the prevailing liberalism of Czech society. Even though links between gender and poverty are reflected in the mainstream discourse of international organizations, the author criticizes their underlying liberal assumptions...

Výzkum

How Women and Men Are Constructed as Clients in Social Work Practices

Radka Janebová, Lucie Černá

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 37-44  

Gendered practices in social work have never before been the subject of research in the Czech Republic. This article looks at gender perceptions and stereotypes in social work practices. It contains a discussion of some findings from a recent qualitative study of a social work organization. The research set out to explore the gendered constructions of women and men as clients. Data were collected from in-depth interviews with social workers. The conclusion of research is that women are constructed as responsible for protection, as cooperative, as subordinate and as hysterical, whereas men are constructed as outspoken, as uncooperative and as aggressive....

Maternity, Family and Work in the View of Mothers with Young Children

Hana Maříková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 45-54  

A structural look at the employment of women with young children shows that this group is marginalized in the labour market when it is unable or only with difficulty is able to find employment in the labour market, as the current labour market revolves around the principle of independent, fully flexible individuals unencumbered by any obligations outside work. What significance in their lives do these women ascribe to being mothers and what significance do they assign to work? How does the perception of the relationship between work and family influence how they define for themselves the combination of these two spheres of life? How does this group...

Within-Job Gender Wage Inequality: The role of the social exclusion of women

Alena Křížková, Andrew M. Penner, Trond Petersen

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 55-66  

Using company-level data from the Czech Republic dating from the years 1998, 2002, and 2004, the article examines whether the introduction of legislative measures aimed at gender equality in connection with the country's accession to the European Union had significant effects on gender wage gaps. The main conclusion of the analysis is that within-job wage discrimination is a significant factor in the Czech labour market and that there were no substantive changes during the period studied. Women doing the same job in the same company earn about 10 per cent less than men in the Czech Republic. Much of the gender wage gap can be explained by horizontal...

The Secondarization of the Labour Market in the Czech Republic: The Case of Cashiers in Foreign Commercial Chains

Marcel Tomášek, Radka Dudová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 67-77  

Secondary labour markets usually involve job positions with forced flexibility and non-standard working conditions (part-time contracts, fixed-term contracts, work without a contract). They are characterized by no advancement prospects or opportunities for further education, exhausting physical work with inadequate wages and job insecurity, and a frequently long and tiring commute. The working conditions in this sector of the labour market often contribute to marginalization and then to the social exclusion of those who happen to be caught long term in this sector of the labour market instead of preventing and saving them from the risk of marginalization...

Reviews

Politika v éře globalizace

Ondřej Lánský

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 78-80  

O lidských právech z neznámých perspektiv

Ondřej Štech

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 81  

Proměny aktérů v globální době

Ondřej Štech

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 82-83  

Proměna bílých žen a mužů z dělnické třídy na konci 20. století

Kateřina Vojtíšková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 84  

Information

Sociální práva a genderová spravedlnost: dva pilíře transnacionální sítě Social Watch

Zuzana Uhde

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 78-80  

Posílení postavení žen v rozvojovém světě: panelová diskuse

Lenka Formánková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 82-83  

Sexuality: zpráva z 2. ročníku vědecké konference s mezinárodní účastí konané v Nitře

Zdeněk Sloboda

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 85-86  

Zpráva z konference "Reprodukce nebo intimita?"

Marta Vohlídalová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 87  

Diskriminace azylantů a azylantek v ČR z genderové perspektivy

Hana Víznerová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2008, 9 (2): 88