The tables illustrate the regular hours of work for full-time and part-time in both female and male employees in Greece, the Netherlands, and the UK in 2002, combined with the European averages.
Overall, full-timers had longer work hours rather than part-time workers across all countries with Greece recorded to be the highest, whilst the UK tended to have the lowest time in both categories. In addition, male employees generally worked more hours than the females, although the gender seen to be opposite for the Netherlands.
In term of regular employment, Greece had the highest work hours, even higher than the European averages, with men and women working at 42.5 and 39.9 respectively. By contrast, the UK recorded to have the shortest working weeks, with women working 37 hours, verus 37.5 hours of males. In the Netherlands, though, both sexes shared the same identical figures at 38.0 hours.
In term of part-time workers, the European averages were the highest among the other 3 countries, at 34 hours for women and 32 hours for men respectively. Greece, again ranked first with the average time for men were slightly higher than women, at 30 hours and 29.3 hours. However, the Netherlands experiencerd a reverse gender pattern, with women working about an hour more than men, at 29.2 hours. Meanwhile, the UK displayed the lowest working time overall, with female and male employees reaching 28 and 29 hours.