ࡱ> 796q` objbjqPqP 4::o    yl 333$hM/3 3iii.  iiiH  0; F`I0yh,+L++\30c"i333_ 333y    d       APPENDIX B Women want their men at work By Caroline Overington THE AUSTRALIAN September 29, 2005 WHEN it comes to the men in their lives, Australian women are conservative: they want their husbands to work full-time. "There's no conflict about this: Australian women don't like it when their men work part-time," says Jan van Ours, an international researcher who will today present a paper drawn from Australia's HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) survey. "Australian women want their men in full-time jobs. They are least satisfied when they, themselves, have a job of more than 50 hours, and most satisfied when they are working part-time, or not at all." Happily, Australian men are in lockstep: they too prefer to work full-time - although, unlike women, they don't mind if their partners work full-time, part-time, or not at all. Professor van Ours's paper, "Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happy", written with Alison Booth of the Australian National University, investigated the satisfaction, and life satisfaction. It concluded that part-time work did not make the family happier: indeed, when it was the man who was working part-time, both men and women were less happy. "Australian couples are happiest when men are working full-time, and that's especially true for women," Professor van Ours said. The results did not surprise Val Prendergast, 45, a mother of one who hasn't worked for 14 years. "In our family, my husband is the one who works full-time," she said. "He is the breadwinner. We never wanted that arrangement, where he would work part-time, or we'd both work part-time. We prefer the traditional roles." The research did not consider why couples are happiest when men work - "But we can speculate," Professor van Ours said. "Maybe the women are happier because the man doesn't stick around all day. The income is likely to be higher, so that's important, too." The presence of children was not considered either, but Professor van Ours said: "Maybe when a man works full-time, a woman has a choice about whether to go to work, especially if she has children. "For the men, I suspect it has more to do with expectations. Men are expected to work full-time, so they are happier if indeed they do." Professor van Ours, who works at Tilburg University in The Netherlands, said the HILDA survey - a household panel study that began in 2001, funded by the Department of Family and Community Services - was "beautiful research, some of the best data in the world". It is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. "It enables researchers from all over the world to draw conclusions that were not possible before," he said. Professor van Ours's paper suggests that there is a limit to the amount of time men can spend at work before it makes them unhappy. "More than 50 hours, if it goes beyond that, they get less satisfied," he said. Women were happiest with their working lives when working 21-34 hours a week; men when working between 35 and 40 hours a week. Mrs Prendergast, who was a schoolteacher before her son Ron was born, said she was always happiest when she didn't have to work at all. "I've seen families where women try to work, but men, God love them, don't pitch in, so women end up being mum, and wife, and worker, and housekeeper," she says. "No, I think most women prefer it when the man has the traditional role."  (?@cenoƲ}le h@h>= h@hsCJOJQJ^JaJh@hsB*CJaJph h@hsCJOJQJ^JaJ)hO0hs56CJOJQJ]^JaJ&h@hs6CJOJQJ]^JaJ,h@hs56CJOJQJ\]^JaJ!h@hsB*OJQJ^Jph!h@h@B*OJQJ^Jph  (?ce b # C O3&w dPgdsdPgdsgdsd-DM gdsgdsgdsow#no dPgds21h:ps. 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