Open AccessDoes part-time work offer flexibility to employed mothers?
Author(s) -
Liana Christin Landivar,
Rose A. Woods,
Gretchen Livingston
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
monthly labor review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.265
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1937-4658
pISSN - 0098-1818
DOI - 10.21916/mlr.2022.6
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , salary , work schedule , notice , working time , part time employment , work (physics) , schedule , labour economics , work time , wage , business , work hours , working hours , operations management , economics , scheduling (production processes) , engineering , management , mechanical engineering , political science , law , market economy
Using data from the 2017-18 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, we evaluate the relationship between part-time work and job flexibility among civilian employed mothers who are wage and salary workers. Results show that mothers working part time are employed in jobs that lack many of the attributes that would characterize these jobs as flexible. Mothers in part-time jobs were less likely to have paid leave, work-at-home access, and advanced schedule notice. Although part-time jobs require fewer work hours, these shorter work hours may come at a cost of reduced flexibility, pay, and availability of family-friendly benefits.
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