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Some sociologial aspects of gender discrimination at work in Croatia

This paper presents some results of the research on gender discrimination in Croatia conducted in 2009. within an interdisciplinary research project focusing on perceptions, experiences and attitudes about gender discrimination in different aspect of the Croatian society, and especially in the labour market. The overall objective of this paper is to present the main results of that research concerning perceptions, experiences and attitudes on representative national sample of Croatian citizens, as well as the frequency of some specific forms of oppression in practice. The results showed awareness about gender discrimination, especially among women, and greater tendency of men toward gender discrimination against women in business and professional spheres. Women showed a higher level of gender awareness and a greater sensitivity to some forms of unequal gender treatment and/or discrimination against them in the labour market than men. Attitudes to gender in/equality in the labor market have confirmed only a general declaration of commitment to gender equality – a tendency which is also found in other studies on the labor market in Croatia. However, the results showed statistically significant differences in attitudes between men and women, when claims were even more specific, women expressed a higher readiness to support more egalitarian gender relations on the labour market than men.

gender discirimination, labour market, men, women

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