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Women happier if they work part-time

   By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent

   12:01AM BST 23 Sep 2007

   Women are happiest with part-time jobs that allow them to combine work
   and family life, a study has found.

   The researchers conducted what they call the first detailed academic
   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
   with no paid job. The findings held true both for mothers and childless
   women. Men were happier working full time.

   Employment experts said the findings highlighted the need for more
   part-time jobs. Of the 13 million British women who have jobs, about 44
   per cent work part time, compared with only 10 per cent of working men.

   The researchers were surprised at their findings on job satisfaction,
   because part-time work has traditionally been concentrated in low-paid,
   low-skilled occupations.

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   The study was based on interviews with 3,800 couples who were
   questioned repeatedly over an eight-year period in the British
   Household Panel Survey.

   The report was compiled by Professor Alison Booth of Essex University –
   a mother-of-two who went part time after the birth of her children but
   now works full-time – and Jan van Ours of Tilburg University in the
   Netherlands. They concluded: "Women prefer part-time jobs. Women with
   children are significantly happier if they have a job."

   Emma Stewart, a co-founder of the Women Like Us employment agency,
   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
   experience before they had children, and they don't want to let that go
   to waste.

   "They want to find work that is fulfilling but they want to fit their
   work around their home life.

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