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2009 Sloan Network Panel Meeting |
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On April 15, 2009, we convened the 2009 Sloan Network Panel Meeting in Utrecht (the Netherlands) on “Intended and Unintended Consequences of Work-Family Policy: Lessons through International Comparison.” Every year, the Network hosts this type of meeting, a small invitation-only event of policy makers, academic researchers and employers on a pressing work-family issue. Last year’s panel meeting was on Employed Parents Caring for Children with Disabilities, and the 2007 meeting focused on Older and Younger Workers: How Does Age Matter?
Participants included 17 people from around the globe including Australia, the Netherlands, France, UK, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Israel and the US.
The goal of the meeting was to identify variations in work-family policies among countries, the forces that shape these variations, the extent to which these policies precipitate intended outcomes of supporting working families, their employers, and national economies, and some of the unintended consequences, particularly on gender equity and career advancement.
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New Work and Family Encyclopedia Entries |
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Commuter Couples and Distance Relationships: Living Apart Together, by Mary Holmes
Domestic Violence and Work: Legal and Business Perspectives, by Marcy L. Karin and Paula Shapiro
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New Poll: Social Media and Work-Life |
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If you participate in social media networks (i.e., Facebook, LinkedIn), are you able to keep your personal/ family and work lives separate?
Please answer our new poll and let us know. Available on our home page and our Work and Family Blog. |
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State Legislation for Working Families |
An Interview with Mary Stuart Gile
by Julie Schwartz Weber and Karen Corday
Download Interview (PDF)
Weber: How and when did you begin working as an advocate for working families?
Gile: My primary profession has been as an early childhood specialist. During the 1970s, I was a part of the feminist movement. It promoted professional and personal development for women, which I thought was great. As I became more involved, I saw that the care of children seemed to be of secondary importance. As a service, child-care was practically non-existent; women looking to work for any number of reasons used what we now refer to as "kith and kin" care or they found someone who offered child care in their home. Center care was just beginning, but was not well regulated. I began to see the importance of family support issues related to working parents.
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India is a developing country with a population of 1.3 billion people. It is a 5,000-year-old civilization with 325 spoken languages and 1642 dialects. It is the world’s second-largest democracy and has the largest movie industry in the world. The sale of the mobile phone in India has reached more than 1.7 million handsets a month, and the telecom sector and the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector are the fastest growing sectors. According to the McKinsey report, India’s revenue from the IT industry alone will reach $87 billion in the next 5 years. India is poised to have the highest working population in the world of roughly 700 million by the year 2050.
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| LITERATURE UPDATES |
The Sloan Work and Family Research Network maintains an online database that contains the citations and annotations of work-family research publications.
One year ago, there were 9,400 citations in the Literature Database. As of April 2009, we now have over 10,450 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications that have recently been entered into this database.
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| UPCOMING ISSUES |
Take part in The Network News. Upcoming issues of The Network News will feature:
- Shelley MacDermid, Center for Families at Purdue University and the Military Family Research Institute , on military families and work-family concerns
- Jeremy Adam Smith, author and blogger, on fathers and work-family
Is your work related to any of these topics? If so, please contact us. |
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Judi Casey, MSW, Director / Principal Investigator |
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Karen Corday, MSLIS, Information Services Specialist |
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Mary Curlew, Policy Research Assistant |
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Jennifer Lawless, Graphic Designer / Communications Specialist |
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Lauren Leonard, Administrative Assistant |
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Sandee Shulkin, MSW, Project Manager |
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Julie Weber, JD, Policy Specialist |
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