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Casey: Why does your book focus specifically on working families?
Kochan: Work and family are so intertwined that we have to look at them as one social and economic set of activities. Typically, we have studied them separately and missed the reality that people experience in their lives. We were not speaking to workers as they experienced work, nor were we speaking to families’ actual home lives. I felt it was time to bring the two together, but keep the emphasis on the workplace as much as possible, as that’s where so many of our pressures are located today. I wanted to move away from thinking about working families as blue-collar workers...
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Employment Status of Parents from Different Types of Families
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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.
One year ago, there were 6,369 citations in the Literature Database. As of March 2006, we now have over 7,200 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications that have recently been entered into this database.
Click here to see this month's selections
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Related to Working Families in the New Economy |
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Work-Family Project
Do Employers Discriminate Against Mothers?: An Audit Study
By Shelley J. Correll and In Paik
How does parenthood affect employment opportunities for women and men, and do the effects of parenthood differ for mothers and fathers? Results from this Sloan-funded study suggest that while parenthood has a small positive effect on job market opportunities for men, it significantly decreases employers’ interest in mothers on the job market. This discrimination against mothers during the hiring process is referred to as the “motherhood penalty.”
With support from the Sloan Foundation...
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Shelley J. Correll |
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Journal of Vocational Behavior: Special issue on Bridging Disciplinary Divides in Mentoring Research
Deadline for Submission: April 1, 2007
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Society for Social Work and Research: 2007 Annual Conference
Deadline for Submission: April 30, 2006 |
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| Conference Announcements |
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23rd Annual Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology
Theme: “Work and Families: Changing Realities”
Where: Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA – When: March 25, 2006
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Family Support America 25th Anniversary Conference
Where: Chicago, IL – When: March 26-29, 2006
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Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL): Myths of the American Family
Where: Emory University, Atlanta, GA – When: March 30-31, 2006 |
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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., Principal Investigator |
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Judi Casey, MSW, 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: 617-552-1708
Fax: 617-552-9202 |
Mailing Address:
Sloan Work and Family Research Network
Boston College
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