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Gender and Working Time: An Analysis of Employers' Working-Time Policies

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  • Horrell, Sara
  • Rubery, Jill

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Information from interviews with manufacturing, private service and public service establishments is used to consider how working-time requirements are determined and the relationship between these requirements and occupational segregation by gender. Both men and women are found to be involved in all types of working-time regime and unsocial hours working. Therefore, in principle, working-time requirements do not provide a barrier to occupational desegregation. However there are sectoral differences in the type of working-time regime adopted and firms adjust their organization of working hours to meet their needs taking into account the customary gender composition of their workforce. Further introduction of extended and flexible working hours is likely to intensify the sectorally gendered patterns of working time. Copyright 1991 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Horrell, Sara & Rubery, Jill, 1991. "Gender and Working Time: An Analysis of Employers' Working-Time Policies," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 15(4), pages 373-391, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:15:y:1991:i:4:p:373-91
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    1. Mark Smith & Stefan Zagelmeyer, 2010. "Working time management and SME performance in Europe," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 31(4), pages 392-409, July.
    2. Robert Drago, 1995. "Divide and Conquer in Australia: A Study of Labor Segmentation," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 27(1), pages 25-70, March.
    3. Anne McBride, 2003. "Reconciling Competing Pressures for Working-time Flexibility," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 17(1), pages 159-170, March.
    4. Lonnie Golden, 2009. "A Brief History of Long Work Time and the Contemporary Sources of Overwork," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 84(2), pages 217-227, January.
    5. Martin Watts, 2003. "The Evolution of Occupational Gender Segregation in Australia: Measurement and Interpretation," Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School, vol. 6(4), pages 631-655, December.
    6. Chung, Heejung, 2008. "Do institutions matter? Explaining the use of working time flexibility arrangements of companies across 21 European countries using a multilevel model focusing on country level determinants," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2008-107, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

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