Women happier if they work part-time Women are happiest with part-time jobs that allow them to combine work study of British couples and their work-life balance. They found that women who worked part-time reported higher levels of satisfaction with their job than those who worked full time. All working women reported greater "life satisfaction" than housewives women. Men were happier working full time. per cent work part time, compared with only 10 per cent of working men. because part-time work has traditionally been concentrated in low-paid, * Childless women 'hostile to working mums' now works full-time – and Jan van Ours of Tilburg University in the which recruits through a word-of-mouth network among primary schools parents, said: "Half of the women who come to us had 10 years of work "They want to find work that is fulfilling but they want to fit their work around their home life.