Agenda

Connecting Working Families

Opening Reception
Room 621

Check–in and Continental Breakfast

Room 200

Welcome

Room 200

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

The Changing Workplace and What it Means for Working Families

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

Ritual and Routine in American Middle-Class Families
Bradd Shore, Alfred P. Sloan Center on Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL), Emory University

The Long Reach of the Job: Employment and Time for Family
Suzanne Bianchi, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland

Why Working Families Avoid Flexibility: The Costs of Overworking
Barbara Schneider, Michigan State University and University of Chicago; Nora Broege, 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

Keynote Speech
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

Multigenerational Relations of the Older Worker: Pathways to Productivity
Toni Antonucci, Department of Psychology and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Flexible Careers, Dual-earner Strategies, and the Gendered Life Course "Fit": 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 Dinner and Reception

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

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 Workforce and Workplace
Ellen Galinsky, Families and Work Institute

Work Hours Mismatch in the U.S. and Australia
Robert Drago, Pennsylvania State University and University of Melbourne

Issues for Women's Leadership in the Legal Profession: Survey of Attrition and Career Decisions in Massachusetts Law Firms
Mona Harrington and Helen Hsi, MIT Workplace Center

Working Conditions and the Experience of Families Globally
Jody Heymann, McGill University

Discussants:

Damon Phillips, University of Chicago
Donna Klein, Corporate Voices for Working Families

Break

Looking Abroad

Room 400

Moderator:

Ariane Hegewisch, 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
Laura den Dulk, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Suzan Lewis, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

A Broad View from “Abroad”
Graeme Russell, Macquarie University, Australia

Work-Life Balance Programs, Flexible Employment and Fertility Decline in Japan
Machiko Osawa, Japan’s Women’s University

Managing Work and Family Conflict in Contemporary India: Luxury and Necessity for the Urban Workforce—A Macro Perspective
Tripti Pande Desai, Institute for Integrated Learning in Management, India

Discussant:

Michàlle Mor Barak, University of Southern California

Lunch

Room 621

Panel: Sloan Network's Curriculum Task Force
Stephen Sweet, Ithaca College
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Boston College

Restructuring American Work: Overview of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiatives (National Campaign)

Room 621

Speakers:

Kathleen Christensen, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Boston College

Break

Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility

Room 400

Moderator:

Chai Feldblum, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University

Speakers:

The View from 10,000 Feet
Joan Williams, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility
Janet Gornick, City University of 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