Work-life balance is a popular topic both in European and gradually also Czech sociology and in European strategies for employment and for dealing with population ageing. The article explores the topic of work-life balance from a theoretical perspective, in the context of contemporary European and world sociology, and from an empirical perspective, on the basis of a representative sociological survey of a population of parents conducted in 2005. The hypothesis of the pressure people experience to combine work and a family and gendered culture (Van der Lippe, Jager, Kops 2006), which puts the Czech Republic in the ranks of not very progressive countries in terms of gender equality, is verified in this survey, because, even though the majority of parents claimed that they are able to combine work and a family, there are nonetheless clear structural obstacles stemming from the design of public policies and institutions, which obstruct this balance. The Czech labour market is not parent or family-friendly, and parenthood (especially motherhood) is a handicap in the Czech labour market. Work-life balance is not the subject of any public or political discussion, and consequently Czech parents do not usually have a comprehensive view of the problem and regard it as serious. Mothers and fathers know that combining work and family is the reality of their lives and at the same time a private problem that they try to solve by means of various strategies.
We established a multifactoral long-term field experiment at the Látókép experimental site of the University of Debrecen (Debrecen, Hungary), on mid-heavy calcareous chernozem soil in 1984, using experimental data from 17 years (1990-2008). We examined the extent to which soil fertility affects maize yield under natural conditions (without fertilisation). We analysed the effect of precipitation in the winter period (from the harvest of the previous crop (maize) until sowing (i.e. October-March)) and the growing season (i.e. April-September) on yield and we evaluated yield per FAO group. We examined the joint effect of crop year and hybrid maturity groups on maize yield; then we evaluated how hybrid maturity groups per crop year and wet and dry years per ripening group affected maize yield. It was shown that the pH value of soil significantly affected yield and also that there was a strong positive correlation between pH value and yield (r = 0.81) at a 1% significance level. The correlation between the two variables is described by a linear regression line. The slope shows that a 0.1 soil pH increase results in a 510 kg ha-1 maize yield increase on average. The correlation between the amount of precipitation during the growing season and maize yield is average, positive (r = 0.718) and linear. Based on the parameters of the estimated regression line - within non-fertilised conditions - 1 mm increase of precipitation resulted in a 9 kg ha-1 increase in yield. The analysis of the joint effect of hybrid maturity groups and crop year on yield showed that crop year determines standard deviation six times more than hybrid maturity groups, whereas the effect their interaction was not significant. and Práca bsahuje výsledky multifaktorového, dlhodobého pokusu na experimentálnej ploche Látókép, Univerzity v Debrecíne (Debrecen, Maďarsko). Experiment prebiehal od roku 1984, v tejto práci boli použité údaje z experimentu získané počas 17tich rokov (1990-2008). Pôda je stredne ťažká černozem. Bol skúmaný vplyv pôdnej úrodnosti na úrodu kukurice v prirodzených podmienkach, bez hnojenia. Študoval sa predovšetkým vplyv zrážok počas zimného obdobia (od zberu úrody kukurice až po nasledujúcu sejbu, t.j. od októbra do marca) a vplyv zrážok počas vegetačného obdobia (apríl -september) na úrodu kukurice. Okrem toho sa študoval vplyv ''sezóny'' a skupín skorosti hybridov na úrodu kukurice. Bolo vyhodnotený tiež vplyv skupiny skorosti hybridov počas suchých a mokrých rokov na úrodu kukurice. Bolo preukázané, že hodnota pH pôdy významne ovplyvňuje úrodu; súčiniteľ lineárnej korelácie medzi pH a úrodou na úrovni významnosti 1% bol r = 0,81. Z tejto korelácie vyplýva, že zvýšenie pH o 0,1 spôsobuje zvýšenie úrody kukurice priemerne o 510 kg ha-1. Korelácia medzi úrnom zrážok počas vegetačného obdobia kukurice a úrodou je pozitívna a lineárna (r = 0,718), z analýzy vyplýva, že zvýšenie úhrnu zrážok o 1 mm spôsobí priemerné zvýšenie úrody kukurice o 9 kg ha-1. Z výsledkov analýzy spoločného vplyvu skupín skorosti hybridov a sezóny vyplýva, že konkrétna sezóna ovplyvňuje tvorbu úrod 6-krát významnejšie, ako skupina skorosti hybridov; interakcia medzi skupinami skorosti hybridov a vlastnosťami sezóny nie je významná.