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Time and time again, women feel they have no choice but to accept lower quality work in exchange for flexibility. This must change. Our research shows:
💸 40% of women who aren't currently working said that access to flexible work would mean they could take on paid work (32% of men who aren't working and 37% of people overall said the same).
💸 Women were significantly more likely to report working part-time (27%) compared to men (14%)
💸 Men were more likely to report having access to make desirable forms of flex work, like working term time only (outside of an education setting) (21%), working as part of a job share (18%), working a number of set hours flexibly across the year (15%), or working to commissioned outcomes (10%).
💸 77% of women agreed that they would be more likely to apply for a job that advertises flexible working options.
We need to make flexible work the default in order to break the link between women and less-desirable flexible work, and encourage more equal division of labour between men and women.
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