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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Gender aspects of personal and working life - ASC51PV53
Title: Genderové aspekty práce a osobního života
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Work (21-KSOCP)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 15 / unknown (15)
Min. number of students: 10
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
The course outlines concepts of gender, gender identity, gender socialization, the gendered division of labor, and the concept of care in the context of gender inequalities. We will discuss the impact of gender categories on the position of women and men in the labor market, in family life, and within broader social structures.
Last update: Formánková Lenka, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (18.09.2025)
Aim of the course -

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

Recognize various forms of gender arrangements in society,

Critically reflect on their impacts,

Develop sensitivity to the consequences of gender differences in everyday life and professional practice,

Navigate tools and policies designed to reconcile work and family life at the levels of the state, organizations, and individuals,

Understand the relationship between gender policies and the practice of social policy.

Last update: Formánková Lenka, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (18.09.2025)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Podmínkou ukončení kurzu je minimálně 80% účast na hodinách, prezentace vybraného textu a jeho kritická reflexe a závěrečná seminární práce.

Last update: Formánková Lenka, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (18.09.2025)
Literature - Czech

Acker, J. (2006). Inequality regimes: Gender, class, and race in organizations. Gender & Society, 20(4), 441–464. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243206289499

Beauvoir, S. de. (1966). Druhé pohlaví. Praha: Orbis.

Bourdieu, P. (2000). Nadvláda mužů. Praha: Univerzita Karlova.

Chung, H. (2022). The flexibility paradox: Why flexible working can lead to (self-)exploitation. Bristol: Policy Press (University of Bristol).

Čmolíková Cozlová, K., Homfray, Š., & Skalková, J. (2022). Nástroje slaďování osobního a pracovního života: z pohledu zaměstnance i zaměstnavatele. Praha: Grada.

Connell, R. W., & Messerschmidt, J. W. (2005). Hegemonic masculinity: Rethinking the concept. Gender & Society, 19(6). https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243205278639

Fraser, N. (2016). Contradictions of capital and care. New Left Review, 100(July–August).

Jarkovská, L., & Lišková, K. (2023). Feministkou snadno a rychle: Příručka argumentů pro debaty s rodinou a přáteli. Praha: Universum.

Kolářová, K. (2018). Paradoxy úspěšné teorie: intersekcionalita mezi kritikou a stvrzováním hegemonie. Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.13060/25706578.2018.19.2.438

Oates-Indruchová, L., Asztalos Morell, I., Dudová, R., Formánková, L., Geambașu, R., Hašková, H., Hawkins, M., & Vohlídalová, M. (2024). What happened to my time during the COVID-19 lockdown? Parents’ subversive temporal regime strategies and their potential beyond the pandemic. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 31(4). 

Renzetti, C. M., & Curran, D. (2003). Ženy, muži a společnost. Praha: Karolinum.

Last update: Formánková Lenka, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (02.10.2025)
 
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