Home working
Recent international comparisons of the proportions involved in home working are not available but in the UK the incidence has increased. In 2002, 441,000 (3.6 per cent) of women and 202,000 (1.4 per cent) of men in employment worked at home.
In addition to the non-standard employment practices discussed here, there are others flexitime, term-time working, shift working and job sharing. All of these are more prevalent for women than for men in all countries (see the case study at the end of this chapter for further discussion of gender differences).