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Care placement agencies: professionalization of care in expert systems
Souralová, Adéla ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Uhde, Zuzana (referee)
During last couple of decades, the paid child care has become one of the central issues of feminist research. The agencies mediating child care are relatively the new actor in child care arrangements in the Czech Republic. This MA thesis argues that they not only fill the gap in the market by offering a child care. Above all, far from providing the simple supply that reacts to the demand on the market, the agencies create the demand for specific care. Drawing upon qualitative research conducted with owners of these agencies, the text looks into the ways how the child care is constructed. The analysis consists of two parts. In the first one the agencies are understood as expert systems generating specific trust. In the second part, the issues of qualified, specialized, and professionalized care are discussed. The thesis aims at showing that child care in the agencies is deconstructed as a natural female activity and is reconstructed as a gendered activity requiring particular skills that are submitted to professional screening.
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Women in Local Politics: The Reflection of Master Suppression Techniques
Adamusová, Marcela ; Havelková, Hana (advisor) ; Uhde, Zuzana (referee)
Women in Local Politics: The Reflection of Master Suppression Techniques The causes of the low political participation of women in the Czech local politics have to be viewed as a complex and interdisciplinary problem. This thesis sums up basic findings about the political participation of women on local level as well as the newest data and examples from the Czech context. Special attention is paid to specific gender barriers faced by local politicians during their public agency. The theory of master suppression techniques by Norwegian social psychologict Berit Ås forms the base of the thesis and is interpreted through Nancy Fraser's and Iris Marion Young's concepts. The theory of master suppression techniques is further examined in the Czech context and confronted with the experience of local female politicians. The particular aim of the thesis is to outline the actual strategies used by local female politicians to cope with gender specific barriers. Keywords: women, local politics, barriers, master suppression techniques, making invisible, ridiculing, withholding information, damned if you do and damned if you don't, heaping blame and putting to shame
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The Interpreters of Emotions: Transgenerational Gender Strategies of Mothers and Daughters in the Setting of Vietnamese Families in the Czech Republic
Vrbková, Tereza ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Uhde, Zuzana (referee)
Contemporary anthropological research looks at the heterogeneous composition of the Vietnamese minority in the Czech Republic and observes different ways of integration of the various generations of Vietnamese migrants (Martínková, 2008). Contrary to the 1st generation, the children are intensely confronted by Czech culture and society, which leads to different negotiating strategies. This contributes to cultural dualism, especially in the case of children forming identities which differentiate them from their parents (Kušniráková Tran Vu, Plačková, 2013; Vasiljev, 1999). The acculturation gap between children and parents can lead to a transgenerational conflict (Janská, Průšvicová, Čermák, 2011). Gender relationships and roles within the family are the key aspect of contemporary changes (George, 2005, Erel, 2009). Through the perspective and analytical category of gender this ethnographic research studies how Vietnamese mothers and their daughters negotiate mutual transgenerational relationships. The research focuses on the narrative understanding of maternal practices of bringing up children that are used by Vietnamese mothers to control the agency of their daughters, their gender roles, sexuality and morality, while also looking at how they attempt to build a sense of belonging. It turns out...
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Legislativa a statistická data k problematice rodičovské dovolené, finanční podpory rodičovství, zařízení péče pro děti a podmínek na trhu práce ke kombinování práce a soukromého života v české společnosti od druhé světové války do současnosti (zaměření na neúplné rodiny, cizince a romskou minoritu)
Hašková, Hana ; Uhde, Zuzana ; Dudová, Radka ; Křížková, Alena ; Leontiyeva, Yana ; Maříková, Hana ; Pulkrábková, K. ; Vohlídalová, Marta ; Vojtková, Michaela
Description of statistical data and analysis of development of legislation on childcare leaves, childcare benefits, childcare facilities and work-life balance arrangements in the Czech labor market since the WWII (with special focus on single parent families, Roma minority and foreigners).
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Sexual Harassment as an Obstacle of Equal Opportunities
Uhde, Zuzana
Sexual harassment presents one of the key elements implicating gender inequalities on the labour market which is connected with other social and political mechanisms and thus directly affect possibilities to promote equal opportunities of women and men in society. The author focus on critical analysis of the phenomenon of sexual harassment in its broader context of institutionalized cultural value patterns which prevent women to participate as equal on the life of society. She supports her arguments by the empirical research realized by the Gender & sociology Department, Institute of sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic which mapped occurrence of sexual harassment and its perception by individual actors at the working place in the Czech Republic.
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The Harassment of Women and Men and Sexual Harassment in the Czech System of Employment Relations. Extent, Forms, Actors and Solutions
Křížková, Alena ; Čermáková, Marie ; Dudová, Radka ; Maříková, Hana ; Uhde, Zuzana
This study of the final report on the research project “An Analysis of the Occurrence of the Harassment of Women and Men and Sexual Harassment at the Workplace”, conducted in 2004-2005 and commissioned by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic. This project was the first in the Czech Republic whose aim was following the introduction of the definition of sexual harassment into the Czech legal code to conduct a complex analysis of the extent of the problem The study presents the results of surveys carried out as part of the project: a public opinion survey on harassment and sexual harassment at the workplace, semi-structured interviews with selected representatives of employers – human resources managers, case studies of victims of sexual harassment, focus groups containing representatives of trades unions.
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