Are You Going Home Already? The Long-Hours Culture

Sarah Rutherford
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Chapter 6 in Women’s Work, Men’s Cultures, 2011, pp 117-141 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In a law case several years ago, investment banker Aisling Sykes, 39, was sacked as vice president for spending too much time with her children, and won her claim for unfair dismissal from US bank, JP Morgan but lost her claim that 14-hour days amounted to sex discrimination. The tribunal ruled that because she was so highly paid her employers were entitled to ‘make certain demands in respect of hours and place of work.’1 The case was important at the time because it was an attempt to use the law to construe a requirement to work long hours as a means of indirect discrimination. However it appeared that the high financial gain exempted the bank from any responsibility to ensure a working environment conducive to working mothers.

Keywords: Part Time; Female Manager; Flexible Working; Emerge Market; Working Mother (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230307476_7

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