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Sloan Network Updates and Announcements
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 We are pleased to announce the addition of the Dependent Care: Tax Assistance topic page.
Visit the Work-Family Bills & Statutes page to view an overview of bills that have been proposed and laws that have been passed in various states that are relevant to work-family issues.
Results of the first Sloan Network poll are in! To read about the results click on the link below.
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| Paid Leave Programs: A Win-Win for Employees and Employers |
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Pitt-Catsouphes: Could you describe the National Partnership’s initiatives for family leave and medical leave?
Grant: The National Partnership for Women and Families has been a voice for women and families for more than 30 years. We were actively involved with the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, and we wrote the original draft of the Family and Medical Leave bill, which was passed into law in 1993.
Click here to read the full interview.
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Grading of United States Leave Programs
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Source: This graphic has been replicated from the report “Expecting Better: A State-By-State Analysis of Parental Leave Programs”. The grading system is based on several criteria which measures each state’s leave programs and regulations for new parents. Although Hawaii and Alaska are not represented on this graphic, they received grades of B and D respectively. For more information about the grading criteria, please view the report.
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Jodi Grant discusses recent report about paid family leave and paid sick days in the United States. |
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Highlights from the recent “Resetting the Clockwork" conference is featured in the Sloan Corner. |
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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 6,455 citations in the Literature Database. As of June 2005, we now have over 6,480 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications from those that have recently been entered into this database.
Click here to see this month's selections
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Work-Family Conference
Highlights from the recent “Resetting the Clockwork” conference
How can we connect researchers with policy-makers, practitioners, and engaged citizens in ways that create new synergies for innovation? How especially can we foster changes in workplaces and communities that enhance the life quality of workers at all ages and life stages, as well as working families? Can states and businesses lead in resetting the clockwork of work, retirement and civic engagement?
This was the challenge laid out a few weeks ago at a research and policy forum hosted at the University of Minnesota by Phyllis Moen. The forum aimed to stimulate conversations about the mismatch between the goals and needs of Minnesota’s workforce, its growing “retired” force, and the existing clockwork of regulations constraining options around paid and unpaid work and engagement.
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"Resetting the Clockwork"
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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., Project Director |
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Christina Matz, MSW and Sandee Shulkin, MSW, Co-Project Managers |
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Janet Scanlon, MSW, Manager of the Literature Database |
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E-mail: wfnetwork@bc.edu
Phone: 617-552-4033 / 617-552-1708
Fax: 617-552-1080
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Mailing Address:
Sloan Work and Family Research Network
Boston College
605 McGuinn Hall
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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