Mothers – Grandmothers – Daughters? Reconciling Labour Market Integration with Care Responsibilities in Brno

SAXONBERG, Steven, Martina KAMPICHLER and Miroslava JANOUŠKOVÁ. Mothers – Grandmothers – Daughters? Reconciling Labour Market Integration with Care Responsibilities in Brno. Online. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 198 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6712-7.

Basic information

• Original name: Mothers – Grandmothers – Daughters? Reconciling Labour Market Integration with Care Responsibilities in Brno
• Authors: SAXONBERG, Steven (752 Sweden, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Martina KAMPICHLER (40 Austria, belonging to the institution) and Miroslava JANOUŠKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Brno, 198 pp. 2013.
• Publisher: Masarykova univerzita

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Book on a specialized topic
• Field of Study: 50000 5. Social Sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: electronic version available online
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/13:00072750
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-80-210-6712-7
• Keywords in English: Women’s labour market integration; reconciling work and care; women’s decision making about work and care; local child care policies; local elder care policies; labour market in Brno.
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

The book describes and discusses two central care norms, how they are institutionalized in related policy areas and how they potentially structure the lives of women in the Czech Republic and Brno in general and their labour market chances in particular: the norm of personal full-time care for children under the age of 3 by their mother and the norm of enabling frail elderly family members to stay in their home environment as long as possible. Though these two care norms are related to very different life situations, they have a common denominator. That is, they bring about the need for (informal) care work, which is predominantly ascribed to and done by women, as mothers, grandmothers, and daughters. The presented research was conducted as part of the EU financed project “Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion” (FLOWS).

Links

• 7E11045, research and development project: Name: Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR