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Myths and Counter-Myths: An Analysis of Part-Time Female Employees and Their Orientations to Work and Working Hours

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  • Janet Walsh

    (Department of Management University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria 3052 AUSTRALIA)

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The nature and character of the part-time workforce has been at the forefront of recent controversies about women's employment. Drawing on new data on the characteristics, attitudes and preferences of over one thousand female part-time employees, this study highlights important diversities amongst the part-time workforce. The results show that the women in the sample had gravitated to part-time work from a range of different employment backgrounds, and for a variety of motivations. While the majority of the women workers were content with their current part-time work arrangements, a significant minority wished to change their employment status to full-time work and a substantial number of part-time women workers wanted to return to full-time work in the future. The research examines the characteristics of such women, and argues that the stereotyping of the part-time workforce as universally `home-centred' or committed to the `marriage career' is misplaced.

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  • Janet Walsh, 1999. "Myths and Counter-Myths: An Analysis of Part-Time Female Employees and Their Orientations to Work and Working Hours," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 13(2), pages 179-203, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:13:y:1999:i:2:p:179-203
    DOI: 10.1177/09500179922117908
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    1. Grund, Christian & Thommes, Kirsten, 2015. "Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation," IZA Discussion Papers 9385, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Hipp, Lena & Molitor, Friederike & Leschke, Janine & Bekker, Sonja, 2017. "Teilzeitväter? Deutschland, Schweden, Irland und die Niederlande im Vergleich," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 29(1), pages 32-48.
    3. Christian Grund & Kirsten Thommes, 2017. "The Role of Contract Types for Employees’ Public Service Motivation," Schmalenbach Business Review, Springer;Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft, vol. 18(4), pages 377-398, October.

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