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Sloan Network Updates and Announcements
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 Our Low Wage Workers topic page is now available here.
The new issue of the Effective Workplace Series, Older Workers, is now available here.
Be sure to keep checking “What’s New in Work and Family” for the latest work and family links.
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| Supporting Leaders to Lead More Balanced Lives: The Key to Culture Change |
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Casey: Tell me about the ThirdPath Institute
DeGroot: Our mission is to assist individuals, families and organizations in finding new ways to redesign work in order to create time for family, community and other life priorities.
Casey: It's interesting that you mention communities along with family and work.
DeGroot: That’s the way our work has unfolded over the years. ThirdPath has placed a lot of attention on family, for very specific reasons, but we’ve always been clear that work-life is bigger than family...
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Interest in Changing Employers by Number of Work-Life Initiatives Offered by Employers as Reported by Supervised Attorneys
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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 6,480 citations in the Literature Database. As of June 2006, we now have over 7,500 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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Work-Family Project
Workplace Flexibility 2010: Congressional Briefings
By Katie Corrigan, Co-Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
Workplace Flexibility 2010 is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation policy initiative located at Georgetown University Law Center. By 2010, we hope to develop consensus-based policy solutions on workplace flexibility that work for businesses and families. To get there, we are broadening the substantive policy conversion to include the full range of flexibility issues and we are expanding the constituency base interested in workplace flexibility on and off Capitol Hill.
Recently, in partnership with the New America Foundation's Workforce and Family Program, we have convened bipartisan congressional briefings highlighting the importance of workplace flexibility as a policy issue and featuring several Sloan-sponsored researchers...
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| Call for Papers |
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Special Issue: Gender, Work and Organization
Deadline for Submission: September 30, 2006
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Gender, Work and Organization : Fifth International Interdisciplinary Conference
Deadline for Submission: November 1, 2006
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| Conference Announcements |
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 Global Perspectives - International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology
Where: Durban, South Africa – When: July 23-29, 2006
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Conference Board: Corporate Community Involvement Conference
Where: Marriott at Metro Center, Washington, DC – When: July 26-28, 2006
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101st Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association
Where: New Orleans, LA – When: August 10-13, 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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