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Parental employment patterns in the Czech Republic: economic rationality or cultural norm?

FORMÁNKOVÁ, Lenka, Blanka PLASOVÁ and Jiří VYHLÍDAL

Basic information

Original name

Parental employment patterns in the Czech Republic: economic rationality or cultural norm?

Name in Czech

Vzorce zaměstnanosti rodičů v České republice:ekonomická racionalita nebo kulturní norma?

Authors

FORMÁNKOVÁ, Lenka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Blanka PLASOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jiří VYHLÍDAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

2016. vyd. London, Rethinking Gender, Work and Care in a New Europe. Theorising Markets and Societies in the Post-Postsocialist Era. p. 141-169, 29 pp. 2016

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/16:00089347

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-1-137-37108-9

Keywords in English

parental employment; gender; discrimination; care regimes; post-communist
Změněno: 24/4/2017 14:43, Mgr. Blanka Plasová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

As one of the post-communist countries, the Czech Republic has gone through a transition from a state-planned to a market economy, which has influenced, among many other processes, the situation in the labour market. The route to economic and political transformation has been described in detail elsewhere (for example Hamplová, 2003; Večerník, 1996; Potůček, 1998, 1999). The aim of this paper was to explore the influence of motherhood and fatherhood on the position in the labour market in the Czech Republic in the context of the work-life reconciliation policy measures. With the results, we would like to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the impact of the institutional setting and the cultural norms related to motherhood and parenthood on the employment of men and women. The paper concentrated on the situation of Czech mothers and fathers with young children during the period from the beginning of the political changes in 1989 until the aftermath of the global economic crisis in 2009. The distribution of risks regarding labour market participation – insecurity in the labour market and poverty – was considered in the specific cultural and institutional context.