The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post‐Communist Family Policy in the <scp>C</scp>zech <scp>R</scp>epublic, <scp>H</scp>ungary and <scp>P</scp>oland

Hašková, Hana; Saxonberg, Steven

doi:10.1111/spol.12129

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“…Hungary is an ideal setting in which to analyse workplace negotiations because long maternity leaves are legally guaranteed, have unquestioned cultural legitimacy and are widely used by Hungarian women. Lengthy leaves have a long history in Central Europe and are supported by widely shared cultural beliefs about women's roles and child wellbeing (Blaskó, ; Hašková & Saxonberg, ). The Hungarian socialist regime introduced a three‐year maternity leave in 1967, which combined a universal allowance with strong job protections.…”

Section: Negotiating Maternity Leave: the Case Of Hungarymentioning

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Negotiating for entitlement: Accessing parental leave in Hungarian firms

Fodor¹,

Glass

2017

Gender Work & Organization

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There is a great deal of literature on the patterns and consequences of parental leave policies and on how and why certain countries adopted specific family policy clusters. Much less is known about the employment context that shapes workers' use of these policies. The current study focuses on the negotiation process that workers must undergo with employers regarding the length of leave and workers' ability to return to their jobs following leave. Given workers' increasing vulnerability in a global neoliberal labour market and the lack of efficient state protection, companies are able to reinforce the ideal of the unencumbered worker norm and thus shape workplace gender inequality regimes. Drawing on qualitative data gained from 33 highly skilled professional women in Hungary, we find that parental leave provisions have become conditional on company needs, and as a result have become increasingly informal, individualized and subject to negotiation. Despite broad leave entitlements and job protections in Hungary, many of our respondents were required to scale back on their career aspirations, drop out or change jobs following leave. By exploring the ways in which highly skilled professional mothers negotiate their rights at work, this study identifies employers as critical gatekeepers who translate public entitlements into the lived experience of workplace gender inequality.

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Section: Negotiating Maternity Leave: the Case Of Hungarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating for entitlement: Accessing parental leave in Hungarian firms

Fodor¹,

Glass

2017

Gender Work & Organization

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“…In contrast, attendance in nurseries were already low in early socialism and dropped continuously to 18 per cent by the mid‐1980s (Haskova and Klenner ). In the wake of the refamilisation following the end of socialism, the number of nurseries was further reduced and has stayed very low since (Haškova and Saxonberg ).…”

Section: Gender Contract and Social Position Of Women In The Czech Rementioning

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The Ambiguous Experience of Motherhood in the Western Bohemian Countryside: Exploring Rural Gender Inequalities Through the Framework of Precarity

Decker

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe rarely find their way into the debate on rural gender inequality. In this article, I aim to mitigate this imbalance by exploring everyday arrangements of women with dependent children in a peripheralised rural region of the Czech Republic. Using an expanded framework of precarity that integrates different spheres of work, I demonstrate that in the spatial context studied, motherhood increases the social disadvantage women face while simultaneously constituting an important field of female agency. I further show that in order to identify room for manoeuvre within configurations of insecurity the whole life‐situation of women must be taken into consideration. My findings add to a nuanced and context‐sensitive understanding of gender inequality in the European countryside, in particular by highlighting the field‐specific interaction of low‐wage economy, gendered division of work and mobility, and concepts of rural childhood, good (grand)parenting and self‐sufficiency. The study draws upon semi‐structured interviews and ethnographic research.

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“…Tato opatření přitom často navazují na minulost. Hašková a Saxonberg [2016] ukázali, jak je organizace péče o děti i její každodenní praxe v České republice, Polsku a v Maďarsku stále do značné míry závislá na tom, jak byla tato oblast řešena v minulosti. Ovšem nikoliv pouze na úrovni individuální, ale i na úrovni státní.…”

Section: Teorie Etiky Péče a Teorie Genderově Morálních Racionalit Runclassified

“…bezdětné příbuzné, služky). Až v průběhu 20. století se péče o předškolní děti formalizovala a začala být masově poskytována na institucionální bázi [Hašková, Saxonberg 2016]. Současně poklesl podíl bezdětných žen ve společnosti a podíl větších domácností [Možný 1990].…”

Section: Teorie Etiky Péče a Teorie Genderově Morálních Racionalit Runclassified

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Family Policy and Formal and Informal Care for Preschool-Age Children in Selected European Countries

Kuchařová¹,

Nešporová

2019

Czech Sociological Review

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The article focuses on the use of childcare for preschool-age children in 13 European countries with different models of maternal employment. Employing a comparative approach it relates care arrangements to family policy measures. Childcare policies and practices in post-communist countries (the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) are compared in a wider European context and specifically to various countries representing the principal types of welfare state and family policy strategies in Europe (the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden). The article focuses on parental leave schemes, parental employment, and formal childcare and takes into account informal childcare, which in many countries is crucial to achieving a work-life balance. The authors' findings reveal that the use of informal childcare is not directly related to either the length of paid parental leave or maternal employment. Informal childcare, which in most cases is provided by grandparents, is used on a weekly basis for at least thirty per cent of preschool-age children in all the post-communist countries studied except Bulgaria. However, similarly high levels of informal childcare were also found in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Austria. Gendered moral rationalities based on cultural norms play an important role in division of childcare in each European state.

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The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post‐Communist Family Policy in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Cited by 36 publications

References 34 publications

Negotiating for entitlement: Accessing parental leave in Hungarian firms

Negotiating for entitlement: Accessing parental leave in Hungarian firms

The Ambiguous Experience of Motherhood in the Western Bohemian Countryside: Exploring Rural Gender Inequalities Through the Framework of Precarity

Family Policy and Formal and Informal Care for Preschool-Age Children in Selected European Countries

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