--- title: Do actual jobs equally benefit all workers? description: Do actual jobs equally benefit all workers? image: https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/hubfs/austin-distel-wawEfYdpkag-unsplash.jpg --- [hello@psdtohubspot.com](mailTo:hello@psdtohubspot.com) [+91 8874569874](tel:+91%208874569874) Hours : Opens 10:00 AM To 07:00 PM [![logoHD](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logoHD.jpg?width=2500&name=logoHD.jpg "logoHD")](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/) - [Home](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/home) - [Subscribe](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/pt-blog-subscribe-opt-in-consent?hsCtaTracking=174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea%7C0776642c-2604-4695-8e3f-f7a74f10031a) - [Contact Us](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/contact-us-old) - [workforce](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/workforce) # [Do actual jobs equally benefit all workers?](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/do-actual-jobs-equally-benefit-all-workers) Research done recently has highlighted the existing gender gap in pay and on working-hours among wom... [Read More →](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/do-actual-jobs-equally-benefit-all-workers) - [supply chain (286)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/supply-chain) - [technology (138)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/technology) - [logistics (81)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/logistics) - [procurement (69)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/procurement) - [optimisation (65)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/optimisation) Posted by [Dave Food](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/author/dave-food) on Apr 27, 2020 4:32:41 PM ![Dave Food](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/9fa060d35f0f962fafafe972c24035ae) Find me on: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/davefood) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davefood) [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/davefood) Research done recently has highlighted the existing *gender gap in pay* and on *working-hours* among women and men. Most leaders are asking questions like: *How do companies treat* their part-time workers? Why do they overload men with long-hours work, or what is the kind of jobs women are doing? These problems are all fundamental issue embedded in *an old-well-established culture*. To get to the bottom of these requires a *significant change direction* of what a job should be. **Facts about part-time work:** - Quite often it is a *low-paid, part-time* work with *no possibility for a better salary improvement.* - The changeover to motherhood marks women's professional career and working prototypes. - Part-time is *higher in mothers* than in fathers; 38% of *part-time* mothers contrasted to 33% *full-time* mothers, while only 7% of fathers do. - The most significant problem remains in the *companies* and how they *consider t*heir *part-time workers* and practices. - We must look at improving the *quality of part-time jobs*. - *Poor chances* and *support* *offered* to this niche for *better positions* and *stimulus*. - Part-time workers *get minor increases* in their salary annually compare to what full-time workers do. - The above condition is even worse when talking about those in *lower-skilled jobs*. - Managers see this kind of work as *less engaged* with the company (retail sellers, nurses and teachers); this encompasses *female* *part-time workers* in *lower positions.* - Full-time favour the opportunities to grow in the workforce. -   - We must ponder many families struggling *to balance* work and *childcare responsibilities* causing mothers or father to just take a part-time job. As a result, the *high cost of childcare* makes it difficult to pay when only one parent is working part-time. So, we need to reinforce the *development*, *promotion* and *salary* to close de gender-gap and the working conditions of part-time jobs. **Facts about *full-time work*** The main problem comes from employers highly supporting an *inequitable workplace-culture, favouring* the full-time employee. The characteristics of this kind of job are: - · Full-time employees work on average the most extended hours per week. - · The UK has one of the highest amounts of *part-time-*working mothers in the EU. - · While the total domestic working-hours varies, there is a clear pattern showing that when men work longer hours, women work fewer. - · In some countries, fathers work long hours and mothers have high-levels of part-time employment. - · The *division of working-hour* between couples in Sweden is *more equitable*, as fathers there regularly work fewer hours. Though mothers are more likely to work part-time. - · A *culture* of long-working-hours *reinforces* *traditional discrepancy of gender roles*. - · When the man in the couple works longer time, significantly increases the chances that the female partner leaves the labour market. - · At the light of these facts, we can assume that *current-workplace drift* is towards working longer hours. Predictions are that *working-hours* or weeks *would shorten* as a consequence of global companies *adapting edge-technology*, high-demand for *work-performance practices* and *extreme jobs*, clearly indicating that the rise of *working-hours* or *overworking* is *not gender-neutral,* hardening the opportunities for working-mothers. ***Summing up:*** so, to genuinely make steps forwards on confronting the gender pay gap, we should focus on *the number of hours worked by men*, the *principal cause* of the rigorous gender-working difference. The *four-day* working week or working *shorter hours* could be the *great leveller* because this approach will trim down the pre-conceived working culture disregarding the concepts around edge-technology skills, part-time, remote-work or flexible-hour jobs, as well as the modern-workspace concepts, or issues regarding diversity and inclusion, or migrants and ethnic minorities.     **Dave Food** [Prophetic Technology](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/) **Subscribe to our emails & exclusive free content.** **[![I want to subscribe](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2979069/174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2979069/174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea)** - [workforce](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/workforce) - - - ## Post Your Comments Here #### About Us Prophetic Technology is a team of dedicated people that combine their expertise in business domains with a passion to release potential.s every page it appears on. 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