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This 9 page paper considers the way in which women has been impacted by increasing work hours over the last few decades and the way that this has impacted on their home life and their work life balance and then looks at some of the strategies used by employers to improve the work life balance. The bibliography cites 31 sources.
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are working and the impact this is having on work life balances. Costa (2000) undertook research into increasing work hours in the US and found that between 1973 and
1991, male earners in the top two quartiles saw an average increase of between 0.3 and 0.5 hours per day, finding similar results for females. Wooden (2001) undertook similar research
in Australia and found that the number of employees reporting working more than 45 hours a week increased, in 1970 this was 23% by 1999 this was 28.4%. In both
cases an opposite impact was also seen at the lower end of the scale, in the US research the bottom 10% of earners found a 1 hour a day decrease
(Costa, 2000) and in Australia those reporting working less than 30 hours also increase from 10.2% to 28.4% (Wooden, 2001). Drago (2000)
argues that many of the jobs which have increased the size of the workforce in Australia have been part time, and as such this simplify reflects a higher level of
participation though part time work, with many women wanting or needing part time jobs in order to work around family commitments (Skinner and Pocock, 2010). The question that is addressed
in this paper is to assess if this is having a disproportionate impact on women and their family life, why women appear particularly susceptible and look at the measures that
employers are taking. With increasing hours working taking individuals away from the family it is unavoidable that this will have an impact, decreasing the time that workers have to
spend at home undertaking family activities. While this has the potential to impact on both male and female workers, it may be argued that the greatest impact is felt by
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