Families & Work Research Conference

March 20-22, 2006
Registration will begin January 5, 2006. We look forward to seeing you at the conference.

The BYU Family Studies Center in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University is sponsoring a three-day research conference on Families and Work, March 20–22, 2006, at the Brigham Young University Conference Center . The conference covers a broad range of topics including: Flexible Work Arrangements: Help or Hype?; Effects of maternal shift work on family well-being; “What Gives” When Mothers Are Employed?; The Influence of Fathers’ Work Conditions on Father-Child Relationships; Work-Family Balance; Links between Job Conditions and the Well-Being of Working-Class Parents; Flexibility and Controlling Employment: Does One Necessarily Bring the Other? Family Leave and Workforce Inequality; Marital Relationships and Retirement; Uncertain Futures in Middle-Class Families; Families Reuniting After Work; Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes, and others.

Invited Presenters include: Tammy Allen, University of South Florida; Rosalind Barnett, Brandeis University; Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland; Ann Crouter, Pennsylvania State University; Jeffrey Hill, Brigham Young University; Maureen Perry-Jenkins, University of Massachusetts; Shelley MacDermid, Purdue University; Ruth Milkman, University of California Los Angeles; Richard Miller, Brigham Young University; Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota; Rena Repetti , University of California Los Angeles; Christopher Ruhm, University of North Carolina-Greensborough; Graeme Russell, Macquarie University, Australia

Conference Organizer
D. Russell Crane
Director of the Family Studies Center
Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy
Associate Director for Research, School of Family Life

Conference Steering Committee
James Harper, Director, School of Family Life
Susanne Olsen, Associate Director for Curriculum, School of Family Life
David Dollahite, Associate Director for Educational Outreach, School of Family Life

Conference Planning Committee
Marie Cornwall, Department of Sociology
Tim Heaton, Department of Sociology
Jeff Hill, Home and Family Living Program
Richard Miller, Gerontology Program, School of Family Life
Lori Wadsworth, Romney Institute of Public Management
Cathleen Zick, Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah