{"id":2972,"date":"2016-08-22T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T08:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:27","slug":"flexible-working-better-for-men-than-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/08\/22\/flexible-working-better-for-men-than-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexible working better for men than women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flexitime and having autonomy over working hours &#8211; known as schedule control &#8211; impacts differently on men and women and may increase the gender pay gap.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the conclusion of new research co-led by the University that shows that although schedule control is associated with increases in overtime and income, it is men that benefit more.<\/p>\n<p>The research, entitled <em>Gender Discrepancies in the Outcomes of Schedule Control on Overtime Hours and Income in Germany<\/em>, was co-authored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/c-d\/chung-heejung.html\">Dr Heejung Chung<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent (pictured right),\u00a0and Dr Yvonne Lott of the Hans-B<span class=\"st\">\u00f6<\/span>ckler Foundation and\u00a0published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2016\/08\/17\/esr.jcw032.short?rss=1\">European Sociological Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read further about this research\u00a0in<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/flexible-working-is-making-us-work-longer-64045\">The Conversation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-3746826\/Flexible-hours-make-work-LONGER-Employees-reward-bosses-overtime-given-freedom.html\">MailOnline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/10685\/flexitime-works-better-for-men-than-women-study-finds\">University of Kent news centre<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flexitime and having autonomy over working hours &#8211; known as schedule control &#8211; impacts differently on men and women and may increase the gender pay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/08\/22\/flexible-working-better-for-men-than-women\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,92760,124,70,139988,25252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}