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Casey: Why is it important to support breastfeeding employees?
Stuebe: Breastfeeding is the physiologic way that human babies are fed. Seventy-seven percent of women in Massachusetts initiate breastfeeding, so it’s also the most common way to feed a baby, at least at first. All major medical groups recommend that babies eat nothing but mother’s milk for the first six months of life, and that mothers continue to breastfeed for the first year and beyond. One third of mothers are back at work three months after their baby is born, so for the recommended breastfeeding schedule to take place, employers need to support women so they may express their milk at work and take it home to their babies...
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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.
A year ago, there were 7,400 citations in the Literature Database. As of May 2007, we now have over 8,580 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications from those that have recently been entered into this database.
Click here to see this month's selections
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Work-Family Project
The Family Caregiver Handbook
by Ann Bookman, Executive Director
MIT Workplace Center, Sloan School of Management
The MIT Workplace Center’s research on the geriatric health care system in the Greater Boston area began with a focus on the crucial work of the professionals who provide health care to elders. As we traced their daily routines, we were struck by the presence and involvement of family members in all settings – be it hospitals, rehab facilities, outpatient clinics, or homes. This prompted us to shift the focus of our project to family caregivers in order to document in detail the role that families are playing in elder care...
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Ann Bookman
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Special Issue: Human Relations
Theme: "Workers, Risk and the New Economy"
Deadline for Submission: July 13, 2007
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Special Issue: Human Relations
Theme: "Work-Life Initiatives and Organizational Change"
Deadline for Submission: January 31, 2008
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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., Principal Investigator |
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Judi Casey, MSW, Project 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
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Mailing Address:
Sloan Work and Family Research Network
Boston College
3 Lake Street Building, 2nd floor
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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