Dr Zuzana Dančíková

Dr Zuzana Dančíková is LSE Fellow in Gender, Policy and Inequalities.

She is a feminist researcher, interested in the inequalities at the intersection of gender, policy, family, and care with a particular focus on developments in Central and Eastern Europe. Her research has focused on leave policy for fathers and has more broadly been concerned with with questions of how to best conceptualize and operationalize gender, policies and their effects. In a new reserach direction, she is interested in the effects of different family policies on the production of a hierarchy of normative and non-normative families along different axes of marginalization, based on their perceived value for the future of the nation.

Her training and work are interdisciplinary, she draws on and contributes to critical social policy, demography, and sociology, and feminist economics. Her work is driven by a commitment to imagining better worlds andshe focuses on policy, policymaking and politics as means to achieving them. She is a Junior Member of the International Network on Leave Policies & Research and regularly contributes to its work.

She completed her PhD at the LSE Department of Gender Studies. She holds an MSc degree in Public Policy and Administration from the LSE, as well as an MSc in Economic Policy and International Relations and BA in European Studies, Media Studies and Journalism from the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic

Expertise Details

Policy; Family; Care; Eastern Europe; Work-life balance; Mixed methods

GI 414 Theorising Gender and Social Policy