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Preference for Family and Work in the Czech Republic

CHROMKOVÁ MANEA, Beatrice Elena and Ladislav RABUŠIC

Basic information

Original name

Preference for Family and Work in the Czech Republic

Name in Czech

Preference pro rodinu a práci v České republice

Authors

CHROMKOVÁ MANEA, Beatrice Elena (642 Romania, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Ladislav RABUŠIC (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Macerata, Family, Care and Work in Europe: an Issue of Gender? edited by Isabella Crespi and Tina Miller, p. 15-46, 32 pp. Prima edizione, 2013

Publisher

eum Edizioni Università di Macerata

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/13:00066435

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-88-6056-377-4

Keywords (in Czech)

preferenční teorie; rodina; práce

Keywords in English

preference theory; family; work; family models

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 6/10/2014 16:25, prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc.

Abstract

V originále

Diversity characterizes fertility, family and work patterns in Europe: there are marked differences between nations in terms of childbearing, family and work preferences. In the year 2000 the British sociologist Catherine Hakim published a new theory based on preferences for paid work and family. The preference theory tries to explain and predict female preferences for work in the labour market and family. It works with elements such as values and decisions at both a micro-level and the economic and institutional macro-context, in which preferences are seen to be the main determinant of choices that people make in their lives. Lifestyle preferences are understood as causal factors, which influence the models of work and family. Preference theory works with a classification of life-style preferences for family and work: “work-oriented preferences”, “adaptive preferences” and “family-oriented preferences”. Preference theory was empirically tested on female populations in some European countries including the Czech Republic. Using a more recent survey (carried out in 2011 in the Czech Republic) on men and women, we used the preference theory in order to answer the following questions: a) What is the distribution of different life-style preferences in the Czech Republic in male and female populations? b)What are the factors impeding the realization of the preferred family model? c) What are the main determinants of these lifestyle preferences? We hypothesized that more men than women will be found to be “work-oriented” and that life-style preferences for family and work are not found to be differentiated by age or gender.

Links

GAP404/11/0329, research and development project
Name: Reprodukční chování mužů
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Male reproductive behaviour

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