What is it about?
Men’s absence from part-time work is considered from a multidisciplinary perspective. Factors operating at the individual, social and organisational levels are identified and explored in terms of their impact on men’s working patterns. A model is presented that characterises men’s absence from part-time work as a result of the mutually reinforcing nature of these factors.
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Why is it important?
Little has been written about men’s apparent inability to access part-time work. In this paper, the working patterns of women and men are considered, not in the light of the traditional question of ‘why do women do part-time work?’ but in terms of ‘why don’t men do part-time work?’.
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Having worked part-time when my children were young, it struck me that none of my male colleagues who were parents of young children were doing so. I wanted to better understand what was going on.
Professor Emirata Alison Sheridan
University of New England
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This page is a summary of: Chronic Presenteeism: The Multiple Dimensions to Men's Absence from Part‐Time Work, Gender Work and Organization, February 2004, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2004.00229.x.
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