Agenda

Check–in and Continental Breakfast

Room 400

Flexibility and the American Worker

Room 400

Moderator:

Marcie Pitt–Catsouphes, Alfred P. Sloan Work & Family Research Network, Boston College

Speakers:

The State of the American Workplace: National Survey on Employers? Ellen Galinsky, Families and Work Institute

Valued Workers and the Policies that Support Them
Robert Drago, Labor Studies and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne

Equality and Flexibility: A Survey of Law Practice
Mona Harrington and Helen Hsi, MIT Workplace Center

Project on Global Working Families
Jody Heymann, McGill University

Discussants:

Damon Phillips, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

Donna Klein, Corporate Voices for Working Families

Break

Looking Abroad

Room 400

Moderator:

Ariane Hegewisch, Program on Work Life Law American University and University of California Hastings School of Law

Speakers:

Gender, parenthood and the changing European workplace: Young adults negotiating the work-family boundary Suzan Lewis, Organizational and Work-Life Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Australia:
Graeme Russell, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University

Japan:
Machiko Osawa, Department of Economics, Japan’s Women’s University

India:
Tripti Pande Desai,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Area, Institute for Integrated Learning in Management

Discussant:

Michàlle Mor Barak, Professor, School of Social Work and Marshall School of Business (Joint appt), University of Southern California

Lunch

Room 621

Speaker:

Stephen Sweet and Marcie Pitt–Catsouphes, Sloan Network’s Curriculum Task Force, Boston College

Restructuring American Work

Overview of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiatives (National Campaign)

Speaker:

Kathleen Christensen and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes

Break

Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility

Room 400

Moderator:

Chai Feldblum, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University

Speakers:

State of Play of Government Policy in America
Joan Williams, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

State of Play of Government Policy in Europe
Janet Gornick, Political Science, Baruch College, New York.

Two steps forward, one step back: Government policies supporting workplace flexibility and the state of play in Australia.
Juliet Bourke, Aequus Partners

Japanese Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility
Sumiko Iwao, Keio University

Discussants:

Stuart Ishimaru, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Rohan Squirchuk [Ms], Diversity Council Australia Limited

Final Wrap–up

Chai Feldblum, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University