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Almost a third of working fathers in the UK lack access to flexible work arrangements, according to new research from UCL.
The research, presented at the British Sociological Association conference this week, found that 30% of employed fathers surveyed could not work part-time, have flexible employment hours or work in a job share.
The rate for women without flexible working was lower – 10%, the researchers, from the UCL Institute of Education, the University of East Anglia, and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) found.
The researchers examined data on 3,965 mothers and 4,211 fathers who were in employment and had children aged 16 or younger. They found that:
The study found fathers in lower status occupations, in the private sector, and in non-unionised workplaces had less access to flexible working, compared to fathers in professional and managerial occupations, the public sector, and unionised workplaces.
Research Rose Cook told the conference: “This research underscores both a striking lack of access among fathers in general, and that flexible working is not being made sufficiently available to all groups of working fathers.
“For fathers, both individual characteristics and features of workplaces are important in determining lack of access to flexible working.
“Fathers’ lack of access to flexible working is associated with a combination of disadvantages relating to low education, lower status occupations, private sector employers and lack of union presence.”
By analysing the data, the researchers found that fathers in technical occupations were almost three times more likely to lack access to flexible working than those in professional and managerial positions.
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