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Quality part-time work can be hard to find,i and research suggests that an increase in the proportion of women working part-time in senior roles is driven more by women already in these roles seeking reduced hours, rather than part-time employees being promoted into manager roles.ii Women who work part-time in low-paid occupations are particularly at risk of falling victim to the ‘sticky floor’ ph. [...] Women are more likely to be part-time managers in male-dominated industries The gender pay gap for part-time managers working in female-dominated industries is more than twice as large as the gap for part-time managers working in male-dominated industries (36.5% versus 17.3%). [...] A gap at the combined level of manager occupations in an organisation has been found to reduce the share of part-time women managers by 7.9 percentage points.v However, this area requires further research, given that women working in male-dominated industries have expressed that access to part-time work – and in particular, access to part-time work that does not compromise future career opportunit. [...] Workplace Gender Equality Agency | www.wgea.gov.au The narrative attached to these patterns1 suggests, on the one hand, that part-time work increases women’s workforce participation,x enables women to balance career and family responsibilitiesxi and, as a result of these two factors, contributes to a reduction in gender inequality. [...] Workplace Gender Equality Agency | www.wgea.gov.au 4 November 2023 Part-time managers: A review of the literature Where are the part-time manager roles? The gender pay gap for part-time managers Women are more likely to be part-time man.