高层外交中的工作与家庭平衡——以捷克共和国为例

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Gender Pub Date : 2022-05-12 DOI:10.1017/S1743923X21000489

Zuzana Fellegi, Kateřina Kočí, K. Benešová

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摘要

摘要尽管在捷克斯洛伐克时代，女性在最高外交界的代表几乎不存在，但自国家社会主义政权垮台以来，捷克共和国的女性外交官人数稳步增加。目前，妇女在捷克外交部中有着稳固的代表性，但担任最高外交职位的人数很少（14%）。本研究使用定量和定性数据，包括捷克外交部的官方统计数据和文件，以及对高级外交官和官员的采访，研究了影响高级外交官职业生涯的主要挑战。研究结果表明，工作与家庭冲突是所有外交官面临的主要挑战。然而，由于现有的“双重负担”和对性别角色的深刻本质主义理解所赋予的特定“母性概念”，妇女显然受到了更大的影响。这些障碍起源于个人、制度和国家层面，这些层面密切相关，并依赖于历史和政治路径。

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Work and Family Balance in Top Diplomacy: The Case of the Czech Republic

Abstract While female representation in the top diplomatic circles was almost nonexistent during the Czechoslovak era, the number of female diplomats in the Czech Republic has steadily increased since the fall of the state-socialist regime. Women are currently solidly represented in the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), but very few (14%) reach highest diplomatic positions. This study examines the main challenges that influence the careers of top diplomats using quantitative and qualitative data, including official statistics and documents of the Czech MFA and interviews with top diplomats and officials. The results indicate that work-family conflicts are the main challenge for all diplomats. However, women are apparently affected more disproportionately because of the existing “double burden” and a specific “concept of motherhood” vested in a deeply essentialist understanding of gender roles. These barriers have origins at the personal, institutional, and state levels that are strongly interrelated and historically and politically path dependent.

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Politics & Gender Multiple-

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6.00

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期刊介绍： Politics & Gender is an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on gender and politics and on women and politics. It aims to represent the full range of questions, issues, and approaches on gender and women across the major subfields of political science, including comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and U.S. politics. The Editor welcomes studies that address fundamental questions in politics and political science from the perspective of gender difference, as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard analytical categories and conventional methodologies.Members of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association receive the journal as a benefit of membership.