Gender & Sociology / Gender a sociologie / Czech Academy of Sciences

The Gender & Sociology department was established in 1990 on the basis of a research proposal to study the position of women in Czech society, and with the support of a grant received one year later the research team was formed and the foundations were laid for developing the field of gender and sociology in the Czech Republic, where prior to that it had not existed. The department theoretically and empirically advances a concept of gender-oriented sociology extending to feminist sociology. Over the course of the 1990s the research team gradually expanded and today is one of the key scientific institutions in the Czech Republic that focuses on the position of men and women in society.