In my country a large amount of women work parttime. Now my country has a relatively high gender equality. Women are not expected to stay at home but can pursue an education etc etc.
However, most women in this country like I said work parttime. I think the main reason for this is that the majority of women do most around the house (take care of the kids, do laundry etc). Now, lately I've seen articles about how this is wrong. (There are also articles pointing out how stupid this is, but im talking about large news channels that say this) And not because women should be equal to men and men should do as much as women when it comes to chores. No, women are basically shamed for working parttime in our society.
Think terms such as parttime diva or parttime little princesses. (Ew, especially the infantalization).
It seems as if it is never enough. There was a time where women didn't work for a salary and our society didn't collapse. Now almost every single woman works but its just not enough. Get in those 40+ hours baby and forget about your home life or well… any life!
Then the funny thing is they complain about a falling birthrate. If two people both work fulltime how on earth can you also expect them to have 3 kids? Working parttime does not mean someone is lazy, my mom worked parttime and she was constantly busy rainsing me and my siblings. But I suppose you just need to pop out a child, put it into expensive childcare till you go broke and forget their name.
Also, gender equality is not women working more. Because we already do. Gender equality is women having the freedom to work parttime or fulltime, which they lack, and to not be shamed.
Not to take away from the fact that men who work parttime are either unheard of or shamed too, because of our work obsessed culture.