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Sloan Network Updates and Announcements
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 The staff members of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network are very pleased to introduce our affiliates to our new Director, Judi Casey.
The second issue of the Policy Leadership Series, focusing on Phased Retirement, has been mailed to over 1,700 recipients across the country.
There are two new entries in our Work-Family Encyclopedia!
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| Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice |
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Diane Halpern and Sherylle Tan |
An Interview with Diane Halpern and Sherylle Tan of the Berger Institute at Claremont McKenna College
by Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Karen Corday
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Pitt-Catsouphes: Could you give a brief description of the Berger Institute?
Halpern: The Berger Institute was started from scratch four years ago. Its purpose is to look at the intersection of work, family and children. As we state on our website:
“The Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children educates students, scholars, law-makers, and the community about a wide range of work and family issues including the effects of changing demographics and...".
Click here to read the full interview.
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Have you Seen the Network's State Policy Portal?
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About: Many factors hinder the ability of state legislators to gain access to evidence based information about work-family issues. The Sloan Network provides information that responds to the expressed needs of state legislators and their staff for specific types of information via portals on the Network's website. The State Policy portal contains a database of work-family related bills and statutes by state, statistics related to a particular topic, definitions of work-family terms, links to overviews and briefs by topic, and links to additional resources of interest to state policymakers.
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Introducing Judi Casey, the new Director of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network! |
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Diane Halpern and Sherylle Tan discuss the intersection of work and family research and practice. |
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A Sloan-funded study, the UCLA California Paid Leave Project, is featured in the Sloan Foundation 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 6,175 citations in the Literature Database. As of September 2005, we now have over 6,664 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 Project
UCLA California Paid Leave Research Project
by Ruth Milkman
This project is part of a larger study of California’s new paid family leave program, which took effect on July 1, 2004. This is the first comprehensive paid family leave program in the U.S., providing up to six weeks of partial wage replacement to eligible employees who go on leave to bond with a new child or care for a seriously ill family member. The Sloan-funded study involved collection of qualitative baseline data on the ways in which...
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Ruth Milkman
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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., Principal Investigator |
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Judi Casey, MSW, Project Director |
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Karen Corday , MSLIS, Research Associate |
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Christina Matz, MSW and Sandee Shulkin, MSW, Co-Project Managers |
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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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