gender education and training in the czech republic veronika Šprincová prague, 21. 3. 2012
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Gender Education and Training in the Czech Republic
Veronika ŠprincováPrague, 21. 3. 2012
Main questions related to gender training
Who provides gender education/training?
Who is trained? What are the main topics? What are the problematic areas?
Who provides gender training?
universities/academic sector NGOs private sector
Academic sector
Universities subject „Gender studies“ on bachelor
degree at Masaryk University in Brno (Faculty of Social Sciences), on master degree at Charles University in Prague (Department of Gender Studies at Faculty of Humanities)
formal education
Academic sector
Specialized departments at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
dept. Gender & Sociology (Institute of Sociology)
National Contact Centre Women and Science
focusing mainly on research organizing seminars and conferences,
releasing specialized publications
NGOs
some NGOs represented in Czech Women’s Lobby provide certified educational programs focused on equal opportunities
such programs aim mainly at public and state administration
Gender theory, institutional framework, labour market, decision-making
Private sector
companies focusing on education in general training/education mainly within projects
focusing on work-life balance and equal opportunities on labour market (work-life balance, gender pay gap etc.)
Who is trained?
students public and state administration employees
(obligatory continuous learning, but not special obligation of gender training)
private companies employees (HR officers) politicians academicians general public
What are the main topics?
equal opportunities of women and men on labour market (work-life balance, gender pay gap)
institutional framework and international commitments (and their fulfillment)
gender theory (social constructivism, structural inequalities, gender stereotypes etc.)
Cooperation of public administration, NGOs and academic sector
The Government Council for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men
4 committees (work-life balance, domestic violence, institutional safeguarding of equal opportunities, balanced representation of women and men in decision-making)
Members – experts from academic sector as well as NGOs, public administration representatives
Problematic areas
educating general public Czech society is not much open to the
topic (partly because of relating it to the era of state socialism)
some NGOs (incl. Forum 50 %) organize campaigns, seminars and conferences introducing and explaining the topic and its relevance to general public
including wider range of topics
