2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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abstract: 'Women''s employment equality remains compromised by wage and work hour
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gaps, despite decades of policy action. Shorter work hours are a key to
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persisting disadvantage because they lock women out of high paying, good
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quality jobs. Such hour gaps are observed across all countries, and this
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paper quantifies the reasons behind them. We applied the Oaxaca
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decomposition method to a sample of employed adults from the Household
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Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA). The method can show how
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the work hour gap would change if (a) women had the same sort of jobs
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(industry, occupation, work conditions, contract type) as men have and
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(b) if men lowered their work hours and/or increased their domestic
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unpaid work. We find that men''s allocation of time in and out of the
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home and the jobs women typically work in are central to explaining
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unequal paid hours. Women''s hours would increase (all else being equal)
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if they worked in the same industries and had the same job security as
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men have, accounting for 74\% of the explained work hour difference.
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Women''s hours would also increase if they did the same (lower) domestic
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work as men, or if men worked the same (shorter) hours women typically
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do (33.4\% of the explained gap). Our study, using Australian data,
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underscores the need to prioritize men''s time use (shorter paid hours,
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longer unpaid hours) alongside improvement in jobs and work conditions
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to progress gender equality in employment.'
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affiliation: 'Doan, T (Corresponding Author), Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Populat
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Hlth, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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Tinh Doan; Furuya-Kanamori, Luis; Strazdins, Lyndall, Australian Natl Univ, Res
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Sch Populat Hlth, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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Thorning, Peter, Queensland Govt, Off Ind Relat, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.'
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author: Doan, Tinh and Thorning, Peter and Furuya-Kanamori, Luis and Strazdins, Lyndall
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author-email: Tinh.Doan@anu.edu.au
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author_list:
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- family: Doan
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given: Tinh
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- family: Thorning
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given: Peter
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- family: Furuya-Kanamori
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given: Luis
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- family: Strazdins
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given: Lyndall
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1007/s11205-020-02597-0
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earlyaccessdate: JAN 2021
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eissn: 1573-0921
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files: []
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issn: 0303-8300
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journal: SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
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keywords: Work time; Unpaid time; Gender inequality; Australian labour market
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keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET; SEX SEGREGATION; DIVISION; HEALTH; TRENDS; GAP;
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FLEXIBILITY; HOUSEWORK; PATTERNS; INCOME'
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language: English
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month: MAY
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number: '1'
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number-of-cited-references: '48'
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orcid-numbers: 'Furuya-Kanamori, Luis/0000-0002-4337-9757
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Doan, Tinh/0000-0002-2297-8187'
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pages: 259-279
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papis_id: 31468cc69d2a89e13a494b2252bc4930
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ref: Doan2021whatcontributes
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times-cited: '3'
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title: What Contributes to Gendered Work Time Inequality? An Australian Case Study
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000604869400005
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usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
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usage-count-since-2013: '22'
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volume: '155'
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web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology
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year: '2021'
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