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LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
Work-Life Balance across the Life Course
International Conference
30th June - 2nd July 2004
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
The University of Edinburgh
An international conference for:
Researchers conducting social research on families with an interest in
work-life balance; Policy makers and practitioners with an interest in
work-life balance.
Abstracts (250 words max) are invited for the following provisionally
entitled streams:
Conceptualising families, time and work-life balance
Equalising gendered caring responsibilities: barriers and obstacles
Policy and practice arenas: states, labour markets, households and families
Work-life balance, families, health and wellbeing
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 15 DECEMBER 2003
Abstracts can be submitted via our website www.crfr.acuk (follow
international conference link), by email to [log in to unmask], or by post at the
address below
Keynote Speaker: Robert W. Connell, University of Sydney
Provisional title: "Gender structure and social justice: the practices and
politics of work/life balancing"
Plenary speakers:
Dr Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Dr Kathryn Milburn, Co-Directors Centre for
Research on Families and Relationships
'Work Life Balance in Low Income Families'
Professor Rosemary Crompton, City University, London
'Women's employment and work-life balance in Britain and Europe'
Professor Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, USA
'State Policies,Labour Markets and Families'
Professor Judy Wajcman, Professor of Sociology, Australian National
University 'Work and family: theorizing who gets the best of both worlds?'
For more information full programme and booking form visit www.crfr.ac.uk
Sarah Morton
Research Liaison and Information Officer
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR)
University of Edinburgh
23 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9LN
0131 651 1939
In consortium with Glasgow Caledonian University and the Universities of
Aberdeen, Glasgow and Stirling
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