abstract: 'Women''s employment equality remains compromised by wage and work hour

  gaps, despite decades of policy action. Shorter work hours are a key to

  persisting disadvantage because they lock women out of high paying, good

  quality jobs. Such hour gaps are observed across all countries, and this

  paper quantifies the reasons behind them. We applied the Oaxaca

  decomposition method to a sample of employed adults from the Household

  Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA). The method can show how

  the work hour gap would change if (a) women had the same sort of jobs

  (industry, occupation, work conditions, contract type) as men have and

  (b) if men lowered their work hours and/or increased their domestic

  unpaid work. We find that men''s allocation of time in and out of the

  home and the jobs women typically work in are central to explaining

  unequal paid hours. Women''s hours would increase (all else being equal)

  if they worked in the same industries and had the same job security as

  men have, accounting for 74\% of the explained work hour difference.

  Women''s hours would also increase if they did the same (lower) domestic

  work as men, or if men worked the same (shorter) hours women typically

  do (33.4\% of the explained gap). Our study, using Australian data,

  underscores the need to prioritize men''s time use (shorter paid hours,

  longer unpaid hours) alongside improvement in jobs and work conditions

  to progress gender equality in employment.'
affiliation: 'Doan, T (Corresponding Author), Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Populat
  Hlth, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

  Tinh Doan; Furuya-Kanamori, Luis; Strazdins, Lyndall, Australian Natl Univ, Res
  Sch Populat Hlth, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

  Thorning, Peter, Queensland Govt, Off Ind Relat, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.'
author: Doan, Tinh and Thorning, Peter and Furuya-Kanamori, Luis and Strazdins, Lyndall
author-email: Tinh.Doan@anu.edu.au
author_list:
- family: Doan
  given: Tinh
- family: Thorning
  given: Peter
- family: Furuya-Kanamori
  given: Luis
- family: Strazdins
  given: Lyndall
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s11205-020-02597-0
earlyaccessdate: JAN 2021
eissn: 1573-0921
files: []
issn: 0303-8300
journal: SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
keywords: Work time; Unpaid time; Gender inequality; Australian labour market
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET; SEX SEGREGATION; DIVISION; HEALTH; TRENDS; GAP;

  FLEXIBILITY; HOUSEWORK; PATTERNS; INCOME'
language: English
month: MAY
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '48'
orcid-numbers: 'Furuya-Kanamori, Luis/0000-0002-4337-9757

  Doan, Tinh/0000-0002-2297-8187'
pages: 259-279
papis_id: 31468cc69d2a89e13a494b2252bc4930
ref: Doan2021whatcontributes
times-cited: '3'
title: What Contributes to Gendered Work Time Inequality? An Australian Case Study
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000604869400005
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '22'
volume: '155'
web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology
year: '2021'