Promoting Children's Well-Being

The Role of Workplace Flexibility

Workplace Flexibility 2010 of Georgetown University Law Center and the Workforce and Family Program of the New America Foundation are bringing together a panel of experts in the fields of parenting, child development, and workplace innovations who will discuss the implications of work-family tensions on children, with a particular focus on the role of fathers.

The briefing will also highlight how workplace flexibility is a necessary part of the response to these issues.

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Susie Valenzuela with Workplace Flexibility 2010 at svalenzuela@rabengroup.com.

Location

Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902

Washington, DC, 20510

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Participants

Barbara Schneider, Ph.D
John A. Hannah University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and Sociology
Michigan State University
Shelley M. MacDermid, Ph.D
Professor of Child Development and Family Studies
Purdue University
David M. Almeida, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Pennsylvania State University

Moderators

David Gray, JD
Director, Workforce and Family Program
New America Foundation
Jean Flatley McGuire, Ph.D
Lorraine Snell Visiting Professor, Institute on Urban Health Research, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Research Director, Workplace Flexibility 2010

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