Odcházení: političky odcházející z politické scény a jejich zkušenosti

Title:

Odcházení: političky odcházející z politické scény a jejich zkušenosti
Departing: the experiences of female politicians leaving the political arena

Creator:

Petra Guasti and Lenka Václavíková-Helšusová

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:89571551-1ddf-483c-930e-129586fa6405
uuid:89571551-1ddf-483c-930e-129586fa6405
issn:1213-0028

Subject:

političky, ženy v politice, gender, politika, women politicians, women in politics, politics, quality of democracy, female political participation, female political carrier, 18, and 316.4/.7

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

print, bez média, and svazek

Description:

The participation and representation of women in decision-making bodies is an important factor in evaluating the level of political culture and the quality of democracy in a country. In the Czech Republic, and in post-communist countries in general, the representation of women in decision-making is imbalanced when compared with the representation of men. This fact is indicative of patterns of governance and the attitudes and values of citizens and suggests a generally passive citizenship in post-communist countries. In reaction to this development, there have been a number of analyses on women in politics in recent years. In general these studies concentrate on the barriers facing women entering politics and actively involved in political life. In recent years there has been a tendency in the media to give space to women who have left politics and have them look back and evaluate their career and the nature of politics. In this respect the academic sphere is lagging behind. The authors of this article aim to fill in this gap. They examine the following question: why do women leave politics after having struggled so hard to get in? They focus on the experiences of women who, in most of the cases, spent more than a decade in politics. They look at the women’s retrospective evaluations of their political careers, at life-work balance in politics, and the women’s experience of departing from politics. The article concludes that the key factor behind entry into politics, and behind maintaining a political career, is the relationships within political parties. Stereotypes and strategies continue to influence the strategic choices of actors, who assimilate into the existing political culture and choose not to generate considerable pressure for change in gender relations in political life., Petra Rakušanová, Lenka Václavíková-Helšusová., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

16-25

Source:

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum: bulletin týmu Gender v sociologii | 2008 Volume:9 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

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