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| The Balancing Act: Legislation to Help America's Working Families |
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Shulkin: How did you become such an advocate for working families?
Woolsey: I am a working parent, although thirty-give years ago I never intended to become one. I have a long career as a working mother, and it was tough at first. Now I see my grown children, and many other women and men, working outside the family. I also see the fathers engaged at home, doing just as much work with childcare and housekeeping. I see how hard it can be to juggle work and family.
I continue to see too many parents being pulled between their careers and their children, and the children are negatively affected as a consequence. The parents want to put food on the table to provide for their children...
Click here to read the full interview.
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Percentage of Dual-Earner Families in Each State vs. Number of Working Family Time-Resource Bills Introduced
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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 6,534 citations in the Literature Database. As of July 2006, we now have over 7,600 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 Work-Family Legislation and Policy |
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Work-Family Project
The Alfred P. Sloan Family Center on Parents, Work and Children: The Five Hundred Family Study
By Barbara Schneider and Linda J. Waite
Co-Directors of the Alfred P. Sloan Family Center on Parents, Work and Children
In the 1950s, the typical American family was a "nuclear" family: mom was a homemaker, dad worked, and the children went to school. Mom saw to the meals, dad fixed the car, mom did the laundry, dad cleaned the gutters. These roles and their boundaries were tightly woven into America's social fabric. Now, more than 40 years later, the weave has loosened and the threads have tangled: in most households both parents work outside the home; homemaking chores that were once solely the woman's responsibility are now shared by both partners and the children...
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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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