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  Work/Life Today is offering Sloan Network affiliates a discounted rate for a subscription to their newsletter!

  Have you visited our statistics database? There are currently close to 350 statistics!

  Do you need ideas for your classes or training workshops?  Be sure to check out our collection of work/family-related class activities.

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 Gaining Access to Flexible Work Schedules

Lonnie Golden

An Interview with Lonnie Golden, Pennsylvania State University

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Scanlon: The term “flexible work schedules” can mean different things to different people. For your research, how did you define the term? Were you able to differentiate “formal” flexibility arrangements from “informal” flexibility arrangements?

Golden: I relied on the Current Population Survey’s definition of flexible work schedules, which is having “the ability to vary the beginning or ending time of work.” This question is followed with the query, “Is this part of flextime or some other formal program offered by your employer?” Therefore, we can assume that people who can vary the beginning and ending of their days but who do not have a formal flexibility program by default have an informal arrangement.


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Percentage of Employees with Flexible Work Schedules by Ethnicity,

1985-1997

Source: This graphic has been adapted from Golden, L. (2001). Flexible work schedules: Which workers get them?. American Behavioral Scientist, 44(7): 1157-1178. Page 1163, Table 1: “Proportions of Full-Time Wage and Salary Workers on Flexible and Shift Schedules in May 1985-1997, Selected Years and Demographic Groups”.

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Lonnie Golden discusses equity of and accessibility to flexible work schedules.
Joan Williams, the director of The Program on WorkLife Law, is featured in this month’s Sloan Corner.
A graphic displays the trend of flexible work schedules from 1985-1997 among ethnic groups.
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The Sloan Work and Family Research Network maintains an online database which contains the citations and annotations of work-family research publications.

A year ago, there were 5,920 citations in the Literature Database. As of March 2005, we now have over 6,369 citations.

Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications from those that have recently been entered into this database.

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Related to Access and Equity of Flexible Work Schedules

Current Population Survey 2001: “The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about
50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics…The CPS is
the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population.”

Economic Policy Institute: “The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks
to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.”
Global Perspectives - The Joseph Rowntree Foundation: “The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK…
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Work-Family Newsletter

"WorkLife Law Report" at American University

Joan Williams is the director of the WorkLife Law program and co-director of the Project on Attorney Retention (PAR) both located at American University, Washington College of Law. The Program on WorkLife Law originated in 1998 as the Program on Gender, Work & Family and it is funded by American University, donations, and grants including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) is also supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American University, and Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia. It is an initiative of the Program on WorkLife Law.

WorkLife Law recently began to publish a newsletter entitled, "WorkLife Law Report”...

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Joan Williams

 
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Call for Papers
Global Perspectives - The Sixth Biennial Conference of Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association (ACFEA)
Deadline for Submission: March 31, 2005

Global Perspectives - Founding Conference of the International Center of Work & Family
Deadline for Submission: April 15, 2005
 
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Conference Announcements

2005 International Corporate Citizenship Conference, Theme: “Mapping the Future of Corporate Citizenship: Redefining the Markers of Business Successes”
Where: Boston, MA - When: April 3-5, 2005

Global Perspectives - Families and Social Capital (ESRC Research Group) International Conference, Theme: “Whither Social Capital? Past, Present and Future”
Where: London South Bank University - When: April 6-7, 2005
 
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Take Part in The Network News
Upcoming issues of The Network News will focus on the following topics:

- Caregiver bias
- Reduced-load work
- Leaves of absence

Is your work related to any of these topics? If so, please contact us.
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Christina Matz, MSW and Sandee Shulkin, MSW, Co-Project Managers
Janet Scanlon, MSW, Manager of the Literature Database
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