- Title
- Permanent part-time work: rewriting the family wage settlement?
- Creator
- Junor, Anne
- Relation
- Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 5, Issue 2, p. 94-113
- Relation
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/jigs-index.html
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2000
- Description
- Despite women’s increased participation in Australian labour markets, the gender norms of the twentieth century family wage settlement have still not been superseded. The gender wage differentials of full-time employment, and the allocation of social welfare, have shifted a little from the male breadwinner/female caregiver model. Nevertheless, full-time hours remain a sticking-point. A gendered full-time/part-time work divide is emerging, in a context where labour markets and their regulation have fragmented. Bargaining models based on “individual choice” allow accommodations, rather than solutions, to the time/income bind. In this context, permanent part-time work, like the earlier family wage, seems to offer the best achievable resolution of the conflicting time demands of work and family life, together with a measure of income security. Whilst still locked in the gender norms of the family wage era, permanent part-time work can only be one of a coordinated range of strategies for working towards a successor settlement.
- Subject
- part-time work; family wage; family life; gender norms
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1047214
- Identifier
- uon:14750
- Identifier
- ISSN:1325-1848
- Language
- eng
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