Agenda

Check–in and Continental Breakfast

Room 200

Welcome

Kathleen Christensen, Program on The Workplace, Work Force and Working Families at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Room 200

The Changing Workplace and What it Means for Working Families: A Global Perspective

Room 200

Moderator:

Linda Waite, Co–Director, Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work, University of Chicago

Speaker:

Jeff Madrick, Editor of Challenge Magazine and former economics columnist for The New York Times

Discussant:

Casey Mulligan, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Break

How Work is Restructuring Family Relationships, Time, and Well–Being

Room 200

Moderator:

Rosalind Barnett, Community, Families, and Work Program at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center

Speakers:

Managing Relational Ties in Working Families
Elinor Ochs, Alfred P. Sloan Center on the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF), University of California, Los Angeles

Reshaping Family Rituals
Bradd Shore, Alfred P. Sloan Center on Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL), Emory University

Balancing Marriage, Employment and Time with Children
Suzanne Bianchi, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland

Why Women Work
Barbara Schneider, Co-Director and Nora Broege, Data Manager, Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work

Discussants:

Diane Halpern, Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children and Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College
Shelley MacDermid, Center for Families, Purdue University

Lunch

Guest Speaker: Catherine Hakim, London School of Economics
Room 621

Entering, Re–entering, and Exiting the Workplace: Implications for Workplace Flexibility

Room 200

Moderator/Discussant:

Steven Haider, Department of Economics, Michigan State University

Speakers:

Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Sylvia Hewlett, Center for Work-Life Policy

Staying in the Workplace: The Elder Worker
Michael Smyer, Alfred P. Sloan Center on Aging and Work, Boston College

Sustaining the Elder Worker
Toni Antonucci, Department of Psychology and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Flexible Careers, Dual-earner Strategies, and the Gendered Life Course: Does Changing Jobs Help?
Phyllis Moen, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Discussant:

Amy Richman, WFD Consulting

Juried Poster Session

Basic Research on Working Families
Room 621

Conference Reception

Lora D. Art Gallery
445 East Illinois Street, Chicago 60611