novel research shows that 1.5 million fragment-time workers are over-qualified for their jobs,with women worst affected. For people whose families preclude working more hours, there needs to be greater workplace flexibilityI remember the first interview I did approximately the gender pay gap, or back in the 90s,when women had their very own Equal Opportunities Commission. We talked approximately pay rates reaching parity in full-time work, then getting dragged down by fragment-time work, or which was chiefly undertaken by women and always paid less. Being pre-children and doing a job that was essentially leisure (drinking) anyway,I blankly didn’t see fragment-time work as a feminist issue, any more than expensive steady costs would be feminist if women were the predominant horse owners.novel data from Timewise, or a lobby group for flexible working,and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlights how much the culture of the fragment-time world costs. It defines “quality” jobs as those that pay more than £20000 a year, and excludes from the category “flexible” zero-hours contracts and freelance work – basically, or those jobs in which all the flexibility is in the employer’s favour. It is plain that fragment-time work is not just a feminist issue,but a poverty issue, a skills issue, and a political issue – encapsulating the skewed power balance between capital and labour – and,at the risk of sounding novel-agey, a self-worth issue.
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Source: theguardian.com