abstract: 'This study uses the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 2013

  Family and Changing Gender Roles'' module (N=1773) to examine

  cross-country differences in the relationship between women''s part-time

  work and work-life conflict and job satisfaction. We hypothesize that

  part-time work will lead to less favorable outcomes in countries with

  employment policies that are less protective of part-time employees

  because the effects of occupational downgrading counteract the benefits

  of increased time availability. Our comparison focuses on the

  Netherlands and Australia while using Germany, the United Kingdom, and

  Sweden as benchmarks. Part-time employment is prevalent in all five

  countries, but has the most support and protection in the Dutch labor

  market. We find little evidence that country of residence conditions the

  effects of part-time work. Overall, the results suggest that part-time

  work reduces work-life conflict to a similar extent in all countries

  except Sweden. The effects on job satisfaction are negligible. We

  discuss the implications for social policies meant to stimulate female

  labor force participation.'
affiliation: 'Roeters, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Utrecht, Padualaan 14, NL-3584
  CH Utrecht, Netherlands.

  Roeters, Anne, Univ Utrecht, NL-3584 CH Utrecht, Netherlands.'
author: Roeters, Anne and Craig, Lyn
author-email: a.roeters@uu.nl
author_list:
- family: Roeters
  given: Anne
- family: Craig
  given: Lyn
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0020715214543541
eissn: 1745-2554
files: []
issn: 0020-7152
journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY
keywords: 'Cross-national comparison; labor market policies; part-time employment;

  work conditions; work-life conflict'
keywords-plus: 'GENDER INEQUALITY; FAMILY CONFLICT; HOUSEHOLD LABOR; EMPLOYMENT;

  POLICIES; HAPPINESS; CHILDREN; DIVISION; IMPACT'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '60'
orcid-numbers: Craig, Lyn/0000-0001-9723-7255
pages: 185-203
papis_id: da72d8cb79592bd7ac75010e61a23a7a
ref: Roeters2014parttimework
researcherid-numbers: 'Roeters, Anne/F-2617-2013

  '
times-cited: '24'
title: 'Part-time work, women''s work-life conflict, and job satisfaction: A cross-national
  comparison of Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000342390300001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '94'
volume: '55'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2014'