Gender, Work Time and Flexible Employment

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse how differentiation in men's and women's work time arrangements in the Danish market has changed in recent decades. This is a time period characterized by profound restructuring in the economy. On the one hand, the Danish labour market has been characterized by a decline in part-time employment for women and growth in the proportion of part-time work in the male labour force. On the other hand, a growth in non-standard forms of employment - e.g. temporary work, multi-job-holding and variable working hours - has taken place in the Danish labour force simultaneously with the decline in part-time employment. The article gives a short overview of the literature on flexibility and work time and analyses the impact of part-time and other forms of non-standard employment relations on women's labour market position and employment stability.