scholarly journals Part-time Work and the Workers’ Age and Sex

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-254
Author(s):  
Anna Skórska
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Occupational Activity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Occupational Life ◽  
Part Time Work ◽  
The Eu

The goal of the paper is to present spatial diversity in the use of flexible forms of employment with special emphasis on part-time work among women and men aged 50+ in the European Union. Demographic changes, including the ageing of the EU population, show the necessity of rationally utilizing available labour resources. Because the level of occupational activity is declining with age, while the share of people aged 50+ in the population is growing, the possibility of doing parttime work that allows reconciliation between occupational life and non-occupational life seems important. This form of employment can also constitute an important transitional stage between occupational activity and retirement. The analyses presented in the paper are based on data from Eurostat and include the years between 2003 and 2017. The conducted studies show significantdifferences in the utilization of part-time work in EU countries especially when age and gender are taken into consideration.

Women in Low Status Part-Time Jobs: A Class and Gender Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Warren
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Part Time Work

Why, given all the problems associated with part-time employment in Britain, do women work part-time at all? Does the answer to this question lie in gender-based explanations which focus on womenís caring responsibilities? This paper addresses these issues by focusing on the relative experiences of the largest group of part-timers, women working in low status occupations. It is concluded that a gender-informed analysis of womenís part-time employment is clearly vital, but an awareness of further dimensions of social inequality is required if we are to understand diversity amongst part-timers. Relative to full-timers, part-timers are similar in their life-cycle positions, their marital status and motherhood status. However, incorporating a class analysis shows that part-timers in lower status jobs stand apart in that they are disproportionately likely to have been brought up in working class households and, as adults, they are more likely to be living in very low waged households with partners who are also in low paid manual occupations. It is concluded that women go into the lowest status part-time jobs in specific social contexts and, as a result, we cannot lump together into one unified group, women working part-time in manual and higher status occupations, and then talk sensibly about part-time work and its impact on women. It is essential to examine the interaction of gender and class inequalities to better understand these womenís working lives.

Inclusion and Exclusion in Hiring

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-85
Author(s):  
David S. Pedulla
Keyword(s):  
Full Time ◽  
Employment History ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Employment Skills ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Employment Experience ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Time Standard ◽  
Part Time Work

This chapter delves into the effects of each type of employment experience—part-time work, temporary agency employment, skills underutilization, and long-term unemployment. These are compared to full-time, standard employment on applicants' likelihood of receiving a callback for a job. As the chapter shows, the effects are largely contingent. First, they are contingent on the type of employment history. Each type of employment experience—part-time work versus temporary agency employment, for instance—does not result in the same treatment from hiring professionals. Second, the consequences of a particular employment experience are contingent on the race and gender of the worker. Indeed, it is difficult to isolate the effect of a given employment history from the way it is refracted through a worker's social group membership.

European Social Citizenship and Gender: The Part-time Work Directive

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Bleijenbergh ◽  
Jeanne de Bruijn ◽  
Jet Bussemaker
Keyword(s):  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Part Time Work

“What Type of a Grown Man Doesn’t Have a Full-Time Job?”

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
David S. Pedulla
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Initial Screening ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Position ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ideal Worker Norm ◽  
Ideal Worker ◽  
Part Time Work

This chapter aims to understand why part-time work and gender interact with one another in the field experiment. The masculine nature of the ideal worker norm and the feminized nature of part-time employment are central to understanding the gender-differentiated ways that hiring professionals treat workers with histories of part-time employment. During initial screening, employers likely do not have information about why a worker was in a part-time position, leaving them with significant uncertainty. Given a job applicant's narrative is unlikely to be available at this moment of initial screening, one way that employers make sense of part-time employment is by drawing on the stereotypes and cultural beliefs about the gender of the worker to weave a narrative about the applicant's part-time experience. In this way, hiring professionals develop stratified stories.

What do we know about the link between low pay, gender and part-time work?

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Jepsen
Keyword(s):  
Living Standards ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Wage Employment ◽  
Wage Earners ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Low Pay ◽  
Part Time Work

The interest in the nature and consequence of low pay has steadily increased during recent years. This interest is a result of the fact that certain countries in the European Union have seen an expansion of low-wage employment as a response to the increase in unemployment. Although various aspects have been identified and measured with regard to low pay, there has been little consideration of the impact of part-time work on low wages, and of the main reasons for the much higher rate of low-wage-earners among women than men. This article brings together the available information on the link between low pay, the much higher rate of low pay among women than men, and the interaction between low pay and part-time employment. Section 2 reviews the knowledge on gender differences with regard to low pay; section 3 focuses on the link between low pay and part-time work; earnings mobility being an important part of the puzzle, the existing evidence is reviewed in section 4; section 5 gathers together the information on living standards; conclusions are presented in section 6.

scholarly journals Part-time work and gender inequality in Europe: a comparative analysis of satisfaction with work–life balance

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Beham ◽  
Sonja Drobnič ◽  
Patrick Präg ◽  
Andreas Baierl ◽  
Janin Eckner
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Part Time Work
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