Many part-time workers want to work more hours. About three in ten women who work part-time, and as many as 37 percent of men who work part-time, express this wish. On the other hand, many full-time employees want to reduce hours.
“There is a lot of potential here for a fairer distribution of working hours between full-time and part-time workers,” says Andreas Stangl, president of the Upper Austrian Labor Chamber, in view of the working climate index. The women who want to work more currently have an average weekly working time of 27 hours and would like to work seven hours more. Men who want to reduce their working hours would like to do so from 39 to 32 hours a week on average.
The differences between women and men in working hours are still large, even though part-time work has increased in both groups. The part-time percentage for men has increased over the past 15 years from 7 to 13 percent and for women from 41 to 52 percent.
Women still earn less
Women still earn less on average than men. However, differences in working hours could only partly explain this. “A significant portion is due to discrimination,” says Stangl.
Incomes are lower in sectors where more women work, but there are also inequalities within the sectors.
Discontent even greater since the pandemic
In the course of the corona pandemic, job satisfaction has fallen sharply, according to the work climate index. The decline in women over the past three years has been even stronger than in men.
Source: Krone
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