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Family, work and reproduction strategy: preference theory in the Czech Republic

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Project Identification
GA403/05/0800
Project Period
1/2005 - 12/2007
Investor / Pogramme / Project type
Czech Science Foundation
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MU Faculty or unit
Faculty of Social Studies
Keywords
Reproduction, lifestyle preferences, work preferences, the family, fertility

The main goal of the proposed project is to further increase our understanding of deep changes in Czech fertility that we have been witnessing here after 1990. We shall do it by application of preference theory formulated by Catherim Hakim. The preference theory assumes that female reproductive strategies are based on conflict between work in the labor market and work connected with raising children. It explains (and tries to predict) how the decision-making is done and what are the factors that determine whether woman will opt to choose between the employment at labor market (with resulting smaller number of children) and the family (with higher number of children). In our project, we shall test whether this theory is applicable also in Czech social and economic environment, i. e. in the society that has undergone transformation. We shall compare our results with the British and Spanish ones where the research has been carried out already. As the reproductive strategies are closely connected with the problem of gender equity, we shall also follow this dimension. Data will be collected by means of a representative survey on Czech adult population aged 18-50. To understand the role of males in the decision-making about number of children a couple intends to have, qualitative interviewing will be made as well. Our research will enrich the existed empirical material on which the preference theory is based by facts from a country transforming itsel from communism to capitalism.

Publications

Total number of publications: 10

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