Phyllis Moen holds the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair and is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She also co-directs the Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, part of a larger NIH-funded research network initiative seeking to study ways to promote individual and family health and life quality by increasing the degree of flexibility around the clockworks of paid work. She teaches and conducts research on life-course transitions and trajectories related to work and family careers over the life course, retirement, aging, gender stratification, and family policy. An underlying theme in her work concerns the dynamic intersections between individual life paths and societal institutions. Both are changing in the face of major social transformations in the family, workplace, gender roles, and longevity. Her most recent (2005) book, The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream (with Pat Roehling), won the “Best Professional and Scholarly Publication in sociology in 2005” by the Association of American Publishers, 2005.

Expertise: Dual Earner Families, Older Workers/Aging Workforce, Retirees, Health and Wellbeing/Wellness, Organizational Culture Change, Flexible Work Schedules, Phased Retirement, Resiliency and Stress, Work-Family Conflict, Work-Family Spillover, Life-course fit, Time Pressures