To think if you want to work pt you may as well burn your qualifications

[Metoodear]

Having a chat with dh in the car that whatever field your in barr social work and nurseing as a women if you want to go full time

You may as well bun your qualifications because your pretty much going to be unable to find somthing with out taking a demontion or to get the summer off

I have friends who have degrees in mandarin,physiology I had a friend who worked as a high flyer Manger who had to resign as they wouldn’t allow PT work none of my friends work in their degree field because they can’t get the work pt

I myself have had to turn two jobs down one paying 25k and the other paying 28k because they wouldn’t allow PT work

I now earn 700 per month and work 3 days a week

I work in IT for a big multinational and we have a lot of people on PT hours and flexible hours and working from home, men and women, not all have children.

It can depend on the role; some customer-facing roles need to have cover at certain times, so there's less flexibility there, but with many others, flexibility works in the company's favour, so people can cover early calls with AsiaPac or late calls with the USA and so on. My department has a 24/7 on-call rota, but that includes part-timers, and part-timers are often flexible enough to take an extra day in the week if we go have weekend maintenance work; it fits what's needed by the job, and not everyone can be as flexible (so I know quite a lot about colleagues' children''s weekend activities!) But we're a big enough department for it to work.

Not all departments work as flexibly - even if their work would allow it, managers don't always - some are very keen on presenteeism.

However, I agree that not many jobs are advertised as PT. Most people here who are PT negotiated it after they'd been here a while. We've got quite a few who went PT to avoid redundancies at some point (so the department lost the equivalent of a full time employee without losing any individuals.)

I am not sure of the effect on promotion -our department doesn't seem to do such things in any circumstances, which is a whole different discussion (in which HR has been involved.)

I have nothing against being PT (I was myself for 6 years), but I do hope all these PP's DPs are doing their share. I hate the way this is seen as a women's problem.

Totally agree stillwith. My DH is part time as well. It actually works out more tax efficient for us this way, as well as giving us a better balance.