A New Full-Time Norm: Promoting Work-Life Integration Through Work-Time Adjustment

This paper is an argument for a new, shorter, full-time work norm in the United States. It examines the context of "time famine" as a product of women's increased labor force participation and an increase in household total employment hours, a caregiving gap, bifurcation of aggregate...

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Published in:Policy File 2004
Main Author: Negrey, Cynthia
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Government
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Labor force/Employment
Women
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Summary:This paper is an argument for a new, shorter, full-time work norm in the United States. It examines the context of "time famine" as a product of women's increased labor force participation and an increase in household total employment hours, a caregiving gap, bifurcation of aggregate work hours, and a gap between workers' actual and ideal work hours. Inadequacies of current alternative work-time arrangements and the Family and Medical Leave Act are addressed and some international comparisons are discussed. Following Appelbaum et al. (2002), the author argues for a "shared work/valued care" model of work-time allocation.