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Women Wish to Cut Work Hours
Twice as many women as men wish to cut back on work hours, even at the sacrifice of pay, according to a new study of labor statistics.The study found that while 5.6 percent of men would opt for less work hours, 10.1 percent of women would prefer less time spent in the workplace. The gap might reflect women’s unbalanced divide of household responsibilities, the researchers say. Enlightenment might be that women just feel they need to use more moment at home with their family.
The results, detailed in the April issue of the U.S. Department of Labor's Monthly Labor Review, have suggestions for understanding why women’s partaking in the labor force, which had go up in the early 1990s, has leveled off more than the past five to 10 years, said the study’s lead author Lonnie Golden, a Penn State University economist.
Golden also proposed the overworked might someway "lend" their hours to the unemployed.
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The study results tell to the nation’s employment-unemployment rates and the underlying driver of a woman’s contribution in the work force.
Recently, the joblessness rate in the United States is about 4.5 percent. But, the survey expose nearly a quarter of participants wanted more work. If the overworked could lend their hours to those either without jobs or in need of more revenue, the end result could be a win-win situation, Golden said.
“If you have so many citizens hungry for hours and more earnings, how rational is it to have a section of your workforce that wants to get rid of some hours and is willing to sacrifice income to do so?” Golden told LiveScience.
The result related to women in the workplace point out a need for restructure of the workplace, Golden said. Economists and other labor researchers have argued whether women leave the workforce because they are happier at home or because the workplace is too strict and prevent a balanced work-home life.
Golden bends toward the inflexibility aspect, which he says be able to make it nearly not possible for some women to take care of family responsibilities while continuing a career.
Golden also proposed the overworked might someway "lend" their hours to the unemployed.
Woman's world
The study results tell to the nation’s employment-unemployment rates and the underlying driver of a woman’s contribution in the work force.
Recently, the joblessness rate in the United States is about 4.5 percent. But, the survey expose nearly a quarter of participants wanted more work. If the overworked could lend their hours to those either without jobs or in need of more revenue, the end result could be a win-win situation, Golden said.
“If you have so many citizens hungry for hours and more earnings, how rational is it to have a section of your workforce that wants to get rid of some hours and is willing to sacrifice income to do so?” Golden told LiveScience.
The result related to women in the workplace point out a need for restructure of the workplace, Golden said. Economists and other labor researchers have argued whether women leave the workforce because they are happier at home or because the workplace is too strict and prevent a balanced work-home life.
Golden bends toward the inflexibility aspect, which he says be able to make it nearly not possible for some women to take care of family responsibilities while continuing a career.
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