Media about the NextGenderHR project – Changing Gender Relations in Croatia; 10-20/01/2026
In January 2026, there were three media publications reporting on the results of the NextGenderHR project – Changing Gender Relations in Croatia
On January 10, 2026, the daily Večernji list published a three-page interview with Inga Tomić-Koludrović, a scientist emerita, and Mirko Petrić, MA. The interview, published in the newspaper’s popular Saturday supplement Obzor, presented and discussed the results of a survey of the lifestyles of male and female students at the universities of Split, Zadar, and Dubrovnik. The content of the article, published under the title “Generation of Contradictions”, underscored the social stratification visible in the lifestyles of young people.
On January 11, 2026, the same interview was made available on the Večernji list portal under the title “Social stratification of youth: Affiliation is no longer a matter of choice but of parents’ material resources”. The text of this article is fully accessible at https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/drustveno-raslojavanje-mladih-pripadnost-vise-nije-stvar-izbora-vec-materijalne-mogucnosti-roditelja-1923213
On January 15, 2026, the weekly magazine Gloria (with a circulation of 58,000) published an interview with Inga Tomić-Koludrović, a scientist emerita, under the title “Enough with the double shift”. The interview is editorially announced as a conversation with a long-standing researcher of the position of women in Croatia, in which she discusses her new research project as well as topics such as persistent gender inequality and unpaid household work. It is also mentioned that Tomić-Koludrović speaks about her experiences of being discriminated against as a woman. The more general statements about the changes in gender relations in Croatia are based on comparisons of Tomić-Koludrović’s previous research with the findings obtained through the NextGenderHr project.
On January 19, 2026, the text of the interview was made available on the magazine’s portal under the title “A well-known sociologist on the real position of women in Croatia: Equality on paper, inequality in life”. The text of this article is fully accessible at https://www.gloria.hr/gl/lifestyle/zivot/poznata-sociologinja-o-stvarnom-polozaju-zena-u-hrvatskoj-ravnopravnost-na-papiru-nejednakost-u-zivotu-15662380
On January 20, 2026, the Zadar portal 057.info published an article entitled “Petrić from Pilar on sociological research: Students of the University of Zadar more represented in the style of ‘art and culture'”. This interview with Mirko Petrić, MA, contains his comments on the results of a study on the lifestyles of male and female students at the University of Zadar. This article can be read at the following link: https://www.057info.hr/vijesti/2026-01-20/petric-iz-pilara-o-socioloskom-istrazivanju-studenti-sveucilistu-u-zadru-vise-zastupljeni-u-stilu-umjetnost-i-kultura-ima-ih-i-u-kozmetici-folku-sportu-i-kladionici-te-rock/
