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Corday: In the preface of your book, you indicate that “understanding contemporary families is possible only by understanding class, and vice versa.” What led you to this conclusion?
Hansen: I first came to this conclusion from reading the literature on families from the last couple of decades. That information led me to design my research so that it was comparative across classes. Once I started talking to families, they reinforced that it was an important issue, because while there are similarities across classes, there are also profound differences...
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Percentages of Preschoolers and Grade-School Age Children in Types of Child Care Arrangements
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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 6,900 citations in the Literature Database. As of Decemberr 2006, we now have over 8,150 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to ten publications that have recently been entered into this database.
This month's selections...
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Work-Family Project
Workplace Flexibility and Employee Health
By Joseph Grzywacz
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Advocates are increasing interested in the potential health implications of workplace flexibility, largely for practical reasons. Public health advocates have observed that pressing health problems, like the obesity epidemic in adults and children and the growing burden of depression, have followed social and economic trends that have made adults’ daily work and family lives more complex. These advocates suggest that solutions that simplify adults’ daily work and family lives, like allowing workers to work from home or “flex” their schedule, may have substantial public health implications...
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| Call for Papers and Awards |
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Call for Papers: 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
Deadline for Submission: January 24, 2007
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 Global Perspectives - Call for Papers: Twelfth World Congress of Social Economics
Deadline for Submission: January 31, 2007
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| Conference Announcements |
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Society for Social Work and Research: 11th Annual Conference
Where: Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA - When: January 11-14, 2007
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College and University Work/Family Association Conference
Where: Hotel Mar Monte, Santa Barbara, CA - When: February 7-9, 2007
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AWLP and World at Work Work-Life Conference & Exhibition
Where: Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa, Phoenix, AZ – When: February 21-23, 2007 |
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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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