%0 Journal Article
%T Politicising Women¡¯s Part
%A Anne Lise Ellings£¿ter
%A Ragnhild Steen Jensen
%J Work, Employment and Society
%@ 1469-8722
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0950017018821277
%X Numerous studies have expanded the understanding of part-time work as a gendered labour market phenomenon. However, there has been little research into how societies perceive women¡¯s part-time work over time. The passage of several decades since women in great numbers entered the labour market in Scandinavia, many in part-time jobs, provides an opportunity to investigate this. We examine ideas about the nature and desirability of part-time work for women based on government advisory commission reports published in Norway between 1978 and 2016. With the gender contract as a conceptual lens, this longitudinal study of ideas demonstrates how a changing national context transformed perceptions of women¡¯s part-time work and the ¡®woman worker¡¯. From being a strategy for increasing women¡¯s economic independence and individual choice, part-time work has become undesirable, whereas full-time work for all women is promoted. The ideational and institutional drivers of the politicisation of women¡¯s part-time work are discussed
%K gender contract
%K ideas
%K Norway
%K part-time work
%K woman worker
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017018821277