The Continuing Legacy of the Communist Legacy? The development of family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic

Saxonberg, Steven; Szelewa, Dorota

doi:10.1093/sp/jxm014

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“…Gender equality was part of the political agenda and women participated to a great extent in the work force also in traditionally male occupations (Mahon and Williams 2007). More recently, these countries have displayed a reorientation towards the family as cultural identity reflected in a stronger pressure towards mothers to care for their offspring and thus promoting stronger gender role models (Saxonberg and Szelewa 2007). Given this complex situation the gender development index may not capture gender differences in the same way in different countries and further, different concepts of gender roles across Europe can be expected.…”

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Gender differences in students’ health complaints: a survey in seven countries

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Aims This study sought to determine the relationship among gender, quality of life and subjective health complaints in university students from six European countries and Turkey. Subjects and methods In surveys conducted between 1998 and 2005, ten health complaints were measured in a sample of 5,317 university students by a symptom checklist with a self-administered questionnaire, which also contained questions on socio-demographic variables and a one-item quality of life measure. Results The gender-standardised prevalence was highest for nervousness and headache followed by back ache or neck/ shoulder ache in most of the countries. Overall, students from Turkey and Spain reported the highest level of complaints and students from Denmark and Lithuania the lowest. Female students were significantly more likely to report health complaints. The gender difference was consistent across types of complaints and study sites, but varied in size. It was on average smallest in Turkey and strongest in the Slavic countries, Poland and Bulgaria. Among all health complaints, depressive moods had the strongest negative impact on quality of life. Conclusion Although the results cannot be generalized to the general populations of the respective countries, the different profiles of reported complaints and gender differences should give rise to special interventions in these populations of young adults.

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Gender differences in students’ health complaints: a survey in seven countries

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“…(see Table 2). Many of the governments opted for a male-breadwinner model, closing many childcare centers and withdrawing the financial support, developing a new ''refamilization'' trend, emphasizing that maternity and rearing children are a woman's role, encouraging women to leave the labor market to raise children (Saxonberg and Szelewa 2007). ''Defamiliazing'' policies on the other hand, shift the responsibility for care away from the family, by providing accessible and affordable child care services, enabling women to join the labor force.…”

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Family Policies in Eastern Europe: A Focus on Parental Leave

Robila

2010

J Child Fam Stud

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Family policy is an issue of concern for many Governments. Family policies are organized around the four main functions of the family: marriage, childrearing, financial support and family care. Eastern Europe is an area with significant socio-economic and political changes in the last decades that determined revisions of social policies. The goal of this article is to review the most relevant family policies in this region. Using feminist and family systems theoretical perspectives the paper also provides an in-depth examination of childcare policies with a focus on parental leave. Maternity, paternity and parental leave and child care services in the region are explored. Recommendations for family policy development, implementation and evaluation in Eastern Europe are provided.

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“…For most of the 20 th century the Czech Republic had an egalitarian economic system with traditional family policies directed towards the two-child family model. The government followed a conservative, "general family support" model (Saxonberg and Szelewa 2007), with parental leave and flat-rate benefits inducing mothers to leave the labour market for long periods.…”

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Cohort fertility and educational expansion in the Czech Republic during the 20th century

Zeman¹

2018

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BACKGROUNDDuring the 20 th century the Czech Republic went through profound changes in female employment, gender roles, population and family policies, and public childcare. The educational structure of the female population changed tremendously. At the same time, completed cohort fertility fluctuated between 1.8 and 2.2 children per woman. OBJECTIVEThis article analyses the changes in the level of completed cohort fertility by education, during educational expansion in the Czech population under the economic, cultural, and institutional background of the state socialist regime, and after its breakdown. METHODSThe changes in the level of completed cohort fertility by education are analysed by means of decomposition, complemented by the analysis of parity composition. RESULTS During the 20th century, education-specific completed cohort fertility increased, rather than declined. Fertility levels converged upwards, contributing to high uniformity within educational categories. The overall changes in fertility levels were driven by changes in the educational structure. These trends resulted in the dominance of the twochild family, while large families were disappearing and childlessness dropped to the biological minimum. CONCLUSIONSAn egalitarian economic system with traditional family-friendly policies, in combination with a family-unfriendly labour market, developed into a male breadwinner model of low gender equity. Future family policies should focus on the reconciliation of work and family.

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The Continuing Legacy of the Communist Legacy? The development of family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic

Cited by 112 publications

References 36 publications

Gender differences in students’ health complaints: a survey in seven countries

Gender differences in students’ health complaints: a survey in seven countries

Family Policies in Eastern Europe: A Focus on Parental Leave

Cohort fertility and educational expansion in the Czech Republic during the 20th century

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