Career - Family - Equal Opportunities - Kuchařová, Věra; Jurajda, Štěpán; Münich, Daniel; Machovcová, Kateřina; Ettlerová, Sylva; Nešporová, Olga; Svobodová, Kamila; Machovcová, Kateřina (Gender Studies, o. p. s, 2007)
Dear reader, The following pages provide the results of various studies concerning the position of women and men in the Czech labour market. The analyses were carried out as a part of the EU Equal project "Fifty - fifty: Equal Opportunities for Women and Men" coordinated by Gender Studies, o.p.s, and co-financed by the EU European Social Fund and the Czech Republic state budget. Each study focuses on a topic that had received very modest coverage in earlier research or had not been explored at all. The first paper is a summary of qualitative and quantitative studies carried out by the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs team headed by Věra Kuchařová. The team's objective was to find out the possibilities parents have in juggling childcare and work responsibilities and the potential constraints or sources of discrimination that can make the parents' situation difficult. They looked at the issue from both the mothers' perspective and that of the employers.