"Women are just more active" ? gender as a determining factor in involvement in senior centres

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F13%3A43918528" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/13:43918528 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000275" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000275</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000275" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0144686X13000275</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Women are just more active" ? gender as a determining factor in involvement in senior centres
Original language description
Centres for seniors offering leisure-time activities currently represent significant actors that translate the idea of active ageing into a particular approach to seniors. Despite the fact that active ageing is now represented by the state and providersof social services as the universally desirable way of ageing, the significantly smaller numbers of male clients was identified as a marked feature of such organisations. A three-year ethnographic study was conducted at two centres in the Czech Republicwhich offer seniors-only leisure-time activities strongly grounded in the idea of active ageing. The method of participant observation was used, and 47 in-depth interviews were conducted with the centres' clients and employees. The higher participation by women in the centres and the role they attribute to such organisations in their lives is analysed in the context of their previous gendered biographies. Gender patterns embedded in the way daily activities at the senior centres are orga
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA403%2F09%2F0038" target="_blank" >GA403/09/0038: Life-course de-standardization in the contemporary Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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