Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6)
Gender Gap Closure and Reversal: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of Women in Higher Education in European Countries

Gender Gap Closure and Reversal

Tomáš Katrňák, Tomáš Doseděl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 549-550 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.040  

The Gender-gap Reversal in Tertiary Education and Its Implications for Inequality of Educational Opportunity in European Countries

Tomáš Katrňák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 551-576 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.008  

Tertiary education has expanded in European countries since 2000. One consequence of this expansion is the growth of the gender-gap reversal (GGR), in which proportion of women in tertiary education is increasing faster than that of men. This article deals with the historically new gender arrangement of tertiary education. It answers the question of whether GGR, as part of educational expansion, means different gender trends in inequality of educational opportunity (IEO) by educational origin in the tertiary education transition. The author analyzed European Social Survey (ESS) data on the 25–34 age group from 20 European countries over five...

Is There Really Unequal Pay for Equal Work Between Men and Women in the Czech Republic? Problems with the Decomposition of Wage Determinants

Petr Kužel

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 577-601 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.032  

This study focuses on issues of the adjusted gender pay gap (AGPG) and problematises existing approaches to calculating this indicator, especially Eurostat’s methodology. It analyses the different factors and variables with which Eurostat and other authors work, noting flaws in their measurement methods. The unadjusted gender pay gap (GPG) is typically divided into explained and unexplained parts, with the latter interpreted as the effect of unequal pay for equal work. This study demonstrates why the unexplained part might be considerably smaller than reported by existing studies (typically at 14%–15% and 17% in the case of Eurostat). What...

The Role of Educational Choices in Support of Gender Equality in Unpaid Domestic Work: A Case Study of Psychology and STEM Students in Slovakia

Magdalena Adamus, Denisa Fedáková, Vladimíra Čavojová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 603-621 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.034  

The present paper investigates female and male students’ perceptions of descriptive and prescriptive gender norms in Slovakia and their expectations of and preferences for unpaid domestic work in the students’ future family lives. We explore the Slovak subset of the ‘Understanding Communal Orientation in Men’ (UCOM) project, which aims to better understand the social‒psychological factors associated with students’ interest in taking care-oriented roles and occupations. Data were collected at several universities across Slovakia in 2018 at psychology (as an example of the HEED field of study) and STEM departments...

Gender Differences in Intergenerational Occupational Persistence and Mobility in Central Europe

Michael L. Smith

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 623-663 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.041  

This article investigates intergenerational occupational persistence and mobility across Central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) on the basis of EU-SILC survey data from 2005, 2011, and 2019. Social Stratification in Eastern Europe survey data from 1993 is also used as a historical comparison. These surveys are uniquely suited for the analysis of occupational mobility due to their large sample sizes and inclusion of detailed parental occupation data. I report gender differences in total and net mobility rates based on the analysis of 7x7 occupational mobility tables, as well as predicted probabilities (derived from log...