Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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Weekly working hours in Estonia by gender 2002
Men Women All
Less than 30h 9.2 % 13.2 % 11.3 %
30-40h 53.1 % 62.0 % 57.8 %
41h or more 37.7 % 24.7 % 30.9 %
Total 100 %
(N=422)
100 %
(N=469)
100 %
(N=891)
Also in Estonia, practices regarding working hours are linked to gender to
some extent. Part-time employment is more common for women than for men,
and the men do long working weeks more commonly than do women. However,
a majority of both men and women work 30-40 hours a week. Among
the men taking part in the survey, the average number of hours worked per
week was 41.5; and among the women, three hours less (38.5h). Long working
weeks are becoming more rare for both genders. In the previous study, nearly
half the men (45 %) and 29 % of the women worked over 40 hours per week.
Now, the corresponding proportions were 38 % of the men and 25 % of the
women. As the above figure shows, a decrease has occurred particularly in the
percentage working the longest working week of all. The most typical Estonian
who works a long week is a man under 50 years of age in a management
position.
There are differences in working week length between the public and the private
sector. The average length for those working in the public sector was 38.5
hours; and in the private sector, 40.7 hours. The differences between sectors
are about the same magnitude for both men and women. The men in the private
sector do a working week 2.2 hours longer on average than the men in the
public sector. For the women, the corresponding difference between these
sectors was 1.6 hours.
Latvia
The longest weekly working hours in the Baltic countries are still done in Latvia.
As many as 43 % of the working people in Latvia had worked more than
40 hours in the week preceding the survey, and almost one-fifth worked over
51 hours per week. The traditional ’40-hour norm’ does not represent the