Sandee Shulkin will present a paper entitled "The State of the States: Trends in Policies for Working Families" at the University of Massachusetts Boston's John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies Student Research Conference on April 28, 2006. The theme of the conference is "Social Inequalities in a New Century."

The second issue of our Effective Workplace Series, Flexible Work Schedules, is now available here.

Issue 5 of the Policy Leadership Series, Afterschool Care, will be sent to state policy makers within the next week and is available online here.

Be sure to keep checking “What’s New in Work and Family” on our web site for the latest work and family links. Here are two recent announcements:

The Labor Project for Working Families has a new curriculum designed to educate and mobilize union members on work and family issues. The curriculum is 3 ½ hours long, easily customizable, and available for free download online.

To download “Making It Work Better: A Work-Family Educational Program,” click here.

Tory Johnson of ABC News offers practical answers to the question: “How can we get our employers to help us better balance work and life outside the traditional 9 to 5 model without compromising the quality of or commitment to both?” Part of the “Mothers Make It Work” series on Good Morning America.

To access “Flexibility Equals Productivity” and see a video clip of Diane Sawyer’s interview with Tory Johnson, click here.

Over the past year we've added many new entries to our Work-Family Encyclopedia that you may be interested in:

  A Critical Examination of the Glass Ceiling Phenomenon, by Prudence LaBeach Pollard

  A Historical Perspective of Social Change, by Jessica DeGroot and Tina Armado

  Crossover of Stress and Strain Between Spouses, by Mina Westman

 

    Helping Behaviors: Volunteerism and Taking Care of Kin, by Hetty van Emmerik

 

    Societal Cultural Models of Work and Family: An International Perspective, by Mary Blair-Loy and Michal Frenkel

 

    Work and Family: A Cross-Cultural Psychological Perspective, by Maggie Shafiro and Leslie Hammer

 

    Work and Family: Cross National Comparisons, by Meera Komarraju

 

    Work-Family Guilt, by Allyson K. McElwain and Karen Korabik

 

    Workaholism, by Gayle Porter

Please let us know what you think!

For more announcements and articles, you may access What’s New in Work and Family by clicking here.

Best regards,

Marcie, Karen, Judi, Tina, and Sandee