This article studies women’s vulnerability to the economic crisis of 2008 through the lens of part-time work in Spain. It posits that part-time work made the female employment position more fragile by acting as a transmission mechanism of traditional gender norms that establish women as secondary workers. This argument is tested through an analysis of Labour Force Survey data from 2007 to 2014 that examines the influence of the employment situation of the household on women’s part-time employment patterns. The results expose the limited take-up of part-time work but also persistent patterns of involuntariness and underemployment corresponding to negative household employment situations, highlighting the constraining role of gender norms borne by the relative position of part-time work in the configuration of employment structures. The article concludes that, during the crisis, part-time work participated in the re-establishment of women as a family dependent and flexible labour supply, increasing their vulnerability.

本文通过在西班牙从事兼职工作来研究妇女在2008年经济危机中的脆弱性。它认为，兼职工作充当了传统的性别规范的传播机制，使妇女成为中等工作人员，从而使女性的就业状况更加脆弱。通过对2007年至2014年的劳动力调查数据进行分析，检验了该论点，该数据研究了家庭就业状况对女性兼职就业模式的影响。结果暴露了兼职工作的局限性，以及与负面家庭就业状况相对应的非自愿和就业不足的持续模式，突显了兼职工作相对地位在就业结构中所承担的性别规范的约束作用结构。