Agenda

Connecting Working Families

Opening Reception
Room 621

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

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