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Tower: The title of your book is Forgotten Families. What does the term “forgotten families” mean to you?
Heymann: The title comes from the realization that within the global work-family dialogue, many families have been utterly forgotten. While issues of working families have been much more readily considered in Europe, the US, and industrialized countries, we haven’t paid much attention to work-family concerns in the rest of the world...
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Source: Heymann, J. (2006). Forgotten families: Ending the growing crisis confronting children and working parents in the global economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Data from Project on Global Working Families in-depth interviews with working caregivers. Analyses in the figure are based on households with a 6-14 year old child.
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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 6,455 citations in the Literature Database. As of May 2006, we now have over 7,400 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications that have recently been entered into this database.
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Work-Family Project
MARIAL: Myths of the American Family
By Elizabeth Kurylo, Communications Director
MARIAL Center
The Emory University Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL) recently hosted a two-day conference on Myths of the American Family. The conference brought together distinguished family scholars from such disciplines as psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, business, theology and communication.
They discussed the historical and cultural origins of some of the most prominent American family myths...
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Teaching Work and Family: An American Sociological Association Resource Manual, Co-Editors: Stephen Sweet, Ithaca College and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Boston College
Deadline for Submission: July 1, 2006
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Gender, Work and Organization : Fifth International Interdisciplinary Conference
Deadline for Submission: July 1, 2006 (stream leaders) and November 1, 2006 (papers)
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| Conference Announcements |
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Fifth Annual Hawaii Conference on Social Sciences
Where: Honolulu, HI – When: May 31-June 3, 2006
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 Global Perspectives - First Internationa l Course on Work/Life Balance: Challenge and Opportunities
Where: Eckerö Hotel, Eckerö, Åland Islands, Finland – When: June 5-9, 2006
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 Global Perspectives - Conference Board/Families and Work Institute 2006 Work/Life Conference
Theme: "Global Economic Solutions: Framing Work/Life's Contribution"
Where: New York, NY – When: June 13-14, 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
605 McGuinn Hall
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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We now have two topic pages that address the issue of family leave- the 
