Gender equality, part-time work and segregation in Europe
2014
153
2
June
245-268
full time employment ; labour market ; labour market segmentation ; part time employment ; sexual division of labour ; statistics ; women workers ; gender equality
Gender equality & Women
English
Bibliogr.
"This article shows how both segregation by sex and segregation by hours shape the occupational space of part-time workers. The level of segregation by sex varies according to the shares of full-time and part-time work in total employment, and the trade-off between increasing the volume of female employment and decreasing segregation by sex is much stronger for full-time work. The author argues that there is less segregation by sex in part-time work than in full-time work, and that it is the gap between the volume of male and female part-time employment that determines the effect of part-time work on segregation in total employment."
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