Childcare Preferences of Parents in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/17:00097776

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Childcare Preferences of Parents in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

Original language description

In spite of recent economic and social developments in the EU and related pressures on labour market participation, family policies in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic are very familialistic. With the combination of long-term leaves and limited access to institutional childcare the reconciliation of parenting and work remains an irresolvable task that has implications for gender equality and specifically for the participation of women in the labour market. This article seeks to examine the relationship between the ideal preferences and real decisions parents make concerning care for preschool-age children against a backdrop of cultural values, economic factors, and institutional provisions established under the system of family policy and childcare policy in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and in relation to gender in/equality in society. The aim is to shed light on the structure and content of parental views on childcare in the context of both real and hypothetical decision-making. As the data show, the ideal preferences and hypothetical choices of parents reflect their actual practice which is determined by the given childcare policies. It is therefore necessary to take this into account in relation to increasing gender equality in society and the participation of both men and women in childcare.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-07898S" target="_blank" >GA15-07898S: Configuration of elderly care in the CR: love, labour, and money</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociológia

ISSN

0049-1225

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

49

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

285-308

UT code for WoS article

000405547100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85026772270