Title: Do Women Really Fare Better When Working Part-time?
Abstract: As married women enter the labor market and the traditional gender division of labor is being undermined, concerns with gender equality have been soaring in terms of the distribution of total work between men and women. In solving the difficulties of accommodating needs of employed married women, part-time employment is being promoted as a strategy enhancing labor force participation of married women with children. Part-time work may have positive effects of reducing the burden imposed on married women who manage both paid work and family responsibilities. This study purports to offer better understandings of whether female part-time employment helps women reduce their workload. This study takes advantage of a nationally representative time use survey collected in 2004. The analysis shows that had women not worked part-time, the gender gap in the total work would have been much greater, but that the gender gap still remains intact even if women’s part-time employment reduces the gap in the total work. And women’s part-time employment hardly affects women’s share of the total work out of the household total work within households. That is, holding other things constant, women who work part-time perform almost the same share of total work within households as do women working who work full-time. But the fact that the sign of the coefficient is positive implies that women who work part-time could undertake a higher share than women who work full-time.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-06-30
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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