SPP457 Gendered labour market and social policies

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Blanka Plasová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jana Válková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Wed 16:00–17:40 PC25
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 4 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/4, only registered: 0/4
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims to provide the students with basic understanding of the impact the gender roles and inequalities have on the situation of men and women in the society, mostly in the labour market. We will tackle the theories about discrimination and segregation of women in the labour market and theories related to division of labour in the household. Policies for reconciling work and family will be introduced as well as the flexible forms of employment both in the context of the new social risks and trends in the society. In relation to these trends, we focus on the analysis of the potential of the social policies to shape and influence the gender relations. Space will be also given to the feminist critique of the traditional typologies of the welfare state. Furthermore, the role of employers and other actors in the field of reconciling work and family will be discussed. Beside the macro-societal perspective, we will also give a space to the micro-societal/individual level of the analysis, where we basically focus on the preferences towards work-family strategies and their links to macro-level. At the end of this course, students will become sensitive to diverse forms of gender order in the society and the consequences of gender differences in the field of social policy. They will become familiar with the public policies as well as with the policies of employers in the area of reconciling work and personal life both in the Czech Republic and in the EU context. They will be able to assess their limits and their potential.
Syllabus
  • Gender - basic terms
  • Gender culture
  • Structural context: new trends in the labour market and new social risks
  • Institutional framework: Czech social policy and the context of EU
  • Flexibility in the perspective of gender
  • Introduction to work-family policy
  • Chilcare system
  • Maternal and parental leave
  • The role of employers
  • Micro-level: individual strategies and preferencies
Literature
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  • MOŽNÝ, Ivo. Rodina a společnost (The Family and Society). Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2006, 312 pp. Studijní texty, sv. 38. ISBN 80-86429-58-X. info
  • SIROVÁTKA, Tomáš and Ondřej HORA. Rodina, děti a zaměstnání v české společnosti (Family, children and employment in Czech society). první. Brno/Boskovice: František Šalé - Albert, 2008, 328 pp. ISBN 978-80-7326-140-5. info
  • PFAU-EFFINGER, Birgit. Development of culture, welfare states and women's employment in Europe. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004, 217 p. ISBN 0754616932. info
  • New risks, new welfare : the transformation of the European welfare state. Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, xiii, 248. ISBN 0199267278. info
  • BARTÁKOVÁ, Helena. Postavení žen na trhu práce v České republice a v dalších zemích Evropské Unie (Labour market position of women in the Czech Republiac and in other EU countries). In Sirovátka T. et al. Rodina, zaměstnání a sociální politika. Brno: ALBERT, 2006, p. 203-231. ISBN 80-7326-104-9. info
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  • NEKOLOVÁ, Markéta. Flexicurity : hledání rovnováhy mezi flexibilitou a ochranou trhu práce v České republice. 1. vyd. Praha: VÚPSV, 2008, 72 s. ISBN 9788087007891. URL info
  • Kyzlinková, R., Svobodová, S. (2007) Práce z domova a její zásah do rodinného života. In: Fórum sociální politiky, roč. 1, č. 1, s. 11 – 17
  • DUDOVÁ, Radka, Hana HAŠKOVÁ and Hana MAŘÍKOVÁ. Kombinace pracovního a rodinného života v ČR : politiky, čas, peníze a individuální, rodinné a firemní strategie. Edited by Alena Křížková. 1. vyd. Praha: Sociologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 2005, 91 s. ISBN 807330077X. URL info
  • ČERMÁKOVÁ, Marie. Podmínky harmonizace práce a rodiny v České republice. Praha: Sociologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 2002, 115 s. ISBN 8073300265. info
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  • Wood, S. J., de Menezes, L. M.; Lasaosa, A. 2003. Family-friendly management in Great Britain: Testing various perspectives. Industrial Relations, 42, s. 221-247
  • PLASOVÁ, Blanka. Strategie zaměstnavatelů v oblasti harmonizace práce a rodiny v kontextu strategií pracujících rodičů s dětmi (Employer's strategies in work and family issue in the context of working parents' strategies). In Rodiny, děti a zaměstnání v české společnosti. první. Boskovice/Brno: František Šalé - Albert, 2008, p. 207-244. jedna. ISBN 978-80-7326-140-5. info
  • PLASOVÁ, Blanka. Harmonizace práce a rodiny a role zaměstnavatelů? Teoretická východiska (Work-Family Issues and the Role of Employers? Theoretical background.). Sociální práce/Sociálna práca. Brno: AVSP, 2008, vol. 8, No 3, p. 43-52. ISSN 1213-6204. info
  • Machovcová, K. 2008. Od uklízečky až po generálního ředitele: genderové režimy v pracovní organizaci. Sociální práce/Sociálna práca, Brno : AVSP, 8, 3. od s. 43-62.
Teaching methods
Teaching methods: lectures, reading, 2 (group) projects (research - opinion poll and proposal of chosen policy/measure change)
Assessment methods
presentation of the both projects and discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015.
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