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Monday March 20, 2006
9:15–9:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions
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

9:30–10:30 a.m.
Session 1

“What Gives” —When Mothers Are Employed?
Suzanne M. Bianchi
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland

10:30–10:45 a.m. Break
10:45–11:45 a.m.
Session 2

“Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes”
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jefferson-Pilot Excellence Professor of Economics
Bryan School of Business and Economics
University of North Carolina-Greensborough

11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Lunch

“Meet the Presenters” Roundtable Lunch
Tables hosted by presenters
Attendees sign up in advance to have lunch with one of the presenters

1:00–2:00 p.m.
Session 3

“Families Reuniting After Work”
Rena Repetti
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles

2:00–3:00 p.m.
Session 4
Break out sessions
A “Health Care Costs for Working vs. Non-working Persons with Mental Retardation in the Kansas Medicaid Waiver Population” Harvey Hillin
Kansas Division of Health Policy & Finance Instructor in Statistics, Baker University Mary Hillin
Division of Children & Family Services
Kansas Department of Social & Rehabilitation Services
B

“Balancing Work and Home: How a Parent's Approach to Quality Time Relates to Their Experience of Work-Family Conflict” Karrie Snyder & Alisa Lewin
University of Chicago

&

“Employed Parents' Investments in Time with Children: Exploring the Role of Occupation”
Margaret Usdansky 
Syracuse University

C

“Cultural Constructions of Work and Family: the Case of Women Married to Unemployed Men”
Elizabeth Legerski & Marie Cornwall
University of Kansas & Brigham Young University

&

“Stay in the Game: Gender, Family Formation, and Alternative Trajectories in the Academic Life Course”
Nick Wolfinger, Mary Ann Mason & Marc Goulden
University of Utah & University of California, Berkeley

D “Relationship of Fathers' Religious and Family Involvement to Work and Family Outcomes”
Roxane Whyte, Jenet Jacob, and E. Jeffrey Hill
Brigham Young University & University of Minnesota,
3:30–4:30 p.m.
Session 5

“Work and Marriage: Bi-directional Relationships between Job Conditions and Marital Quality”
Maureen Perry-Jenkins
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Massachusetts Amherst
And graduate students:
Amy Claxton, Julianna Smith, & Mark Manning

Tuesday March 21, 2006

8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Conference Business
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

9:00–10:30 a.m.
Session 6

“Job Flexibility” “Flexible Work Arrangements: Help or Hype?”
Tammy D. Allen
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of South Florida
&
“Flexibility and Control: Does One Necessarily Bring the Other?”
Shelley M. MacDermid
Professor
Director, Center for Families at Purdue University
Co-Director
Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University
Purdue University
And graduate student,
Chiung Ya Tang
Department of Family Studies

10:30–11:30 a.m.

Break and Poster Presentations

  1. “Success and Balance: Mutually Exclusive or One in the Same?”
    Joanie Connell & Tracy Shamas
    Flexible Work Solutions & Alliant International University
  2. “Mothers' and Fathers' Work Conditions and Relationship with their Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study”
    Kelly Davis
    Penn State University
  3. “Working in-tandem with Baby: A Case Study of Amethyst, Inc.'s Bring- Your-Baby-to-Work Policy”
    Gretchen Hammond
    Ohio State
  4. “Perceptions of Mate Selection for Marriage among College-Educated African-American Single Mothers”
    Rochelle Holland
    Borough of Manhattan Community College
  5. “Work-Family Facilitation: A Domain Specific Investigation in a Hong Kong Chinese Context”
    Dora Luk & Margaret Shaffer
    City University of Hong Kong & University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  6. “The Work/Life Business Case: Building a Metrics System”
    Heather McMillan & Michael Morris
    University of Tennessee
  7. “Superiority of Support: The Impact of Family Supportive Organizational Environments and Work Supportive Home Environments on Work-Family Facilitation and Conflict”
    Elianne van Steenbergen & Naomi Ellemers
    Leiden University, Netherlands
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Session 7

“Family Leave and Workforce Inequality”
Ruth M. Milkman
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles

12:30–2:00 p.m.

Lunch and Speaker

“Fathers’ Work Conditions: Implications for the Quality of Father-Child Relationships”
Ann Crouter
Professor of Human Development
Director, Center for Work and Family Research
The Pennsylvania State University
And graduate student, Ben Goodman,
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

2:15 p.m.

Tour of BYU Campus and the School of Family Life (JFSB) building and labs
Conducted by James Harper, Director of the School of Family Life

Wednesday March 22, 2006

8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Conference Business
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

9:00–10:00 a.m.
Session 9

“Beyond Mystiques and Mismatches: Institutional Convoys, Adaptive Strategies, and Cycles of Control in Jobs and Families”
Phyllis Moen
McKnight Presidential Chair, Sociology
University of Minnesota

10:00–10:15 a.m. Break
10:15–11:15 a.m.
Session 10

“Effects of Maternal Shift Work on Mothers’, Fathers’, and Children’s Well-being Outcomes”
Rosalind Chait Barnett
Senior Scientist
Director of Community, Families & Work Program
Women's Studies Research Center
Brandeis University

11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:30–1:30 p.m.
Session 11
Break out sessions
A His Perspective, Her Perspective, Their Perspective: Work-to-Family Conflict and the Marital Satisfaction of Dual- Earner Couples Krista Lynn Minnotte, Daphne Pedersen Stevens, Susan E. Mannon & Gary Kiger Utah State University, University of North Dakota.
B “Spousal Employment Responses to the Onset of Disability” Sven Wilson Brigham Young University
C “Policy and Practice in balancing Work and Family: Results of a Study of Mothers of Young Children in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand” Lynda Clark, Janet Sceats, & Kim Johnstone
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
&
“Work Life Congruency: Managing Various Demands for a Purposeful Life” Kelli Schutte William Jewell College
D “What's for Dinner? Dinnertime and Job Flexibility as Mediators and Moderators” Jeff Hill, Sarah Allen, Jenet Jacob, Nicole Mead & Maria Ferris
Brigham Young University, University of Minnesota, IBM
And
“Times Have Changed: Historical Trends in Spouses’ Daily Time Together by Work Strategy” Jeff Dew
The Pennsylvania State University
1:30–2:30 p.m.
Session 12

“Living through Work; Working through Life”
Graeme Russell
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Division of Linguistics and Psychology
Macquarie University
Australia

2:30–2:45 p.m. Break
2:45–3:45 p.m.
Session 13

“The Interaction between Marital Relationships and Retirement”
Richard B. Miller
Professor, School of Family Life
Brigham Young University
And
Jeremy B. Yorgason
Assistant Professor
Marriage, Family and Human Development
School of Family Life
Brigham Young University

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Session 14

“Work-family facilitation: What does it look like?”
E. Jeffrey Hill
Associate Professor
School of Family Life
Brigham Young University
And
Graduate Students
Ashley Ferrin Bair, Sacha Leah Bikhazi, Alisa Cox, Giuseppe Martinengo, Taralyn Trost, and Eric Walker

5:30–7:30 p.m. Closing Banquet