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Sloan Network Updates and Reminders |
 We have set up a blog at http://wfnetwork.wordpress.com/ on which we will announce updates to the Sloan Network. For those of you that subscribe to RSS feeds, you may add the blog's feed and have the updates delivered right to your desktop! You may also simply use the blog itself to learn about updates and leave questions and comments about the updates, if you like. For more information on RSS feeds, see this article from CNET: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10088_7-5143460-1.html. You may also e-mail Karen Corday at corday@bc.edu.
We will continue to announce new features here and in The Network News as well!
Two new Topic Pages are online: Employer-Supported Child Care and Gender and Use of Workplace Policies.
Issue 8 of the Policy Leadership Series, Policy Leadership on Developing Work-Family Committees was sent to state policy makers across the country and is online in PDF format.
Issue 7 of the Effective Workplace Series, Telework, is available online in PDF format.
The Family Leave Topic Page has updated information.
Be sure to keep checking “What’s New in Work and Family” for the latest work and family links. Here are two recent announcements:
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Early Child Care Linked to Increases in Vocabulary, Some Problem Behaviors in Fifth and Sixth Grades
This press release from the NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development details the most recent analysis of a long term study on the effects of child care. The researchers " cautioned that the increase in vocabulary and problem behaviors was small, and that parenting quality was a much more important predictor of child development than was type, quantity, or quality, of child care." The study appears in the March/April issue of Child Development. More information on the study is available here: http://secc.rti.org/.
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The American Prospect: Why Can't America Have a Family Friendly Workplace?
This special issue of The American Prospect includes articles on redesigning the national household, gender conflicts, a revisitation of the "opt out revolution," the business case for work-family balance, the low bar set for designating businesses as "family friendly," Europe's policies, fathers, and Generation X. All content is available online for free! |
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The Sloan Work and Family Research Network appreciates the extensive support we have received from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Boston College community.
E-mail: wfnetwork@bc.edu - Phone: 617-552-1708 - Fax: 617-552-9202
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