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1 PROGRAMME Work- family research conference Stockholm University, May 9, Welcome Work- family Research in Sweden Anne Grönlund & Charlotta Magnusson Keynote talk Current Research Moving Work- Family Scholarship from the Margins to the Main Stream Professor Ellen E Kossek, president of Work and Family Researchers Network (see below) Break Parallell sessions A- D (see below) A: B: Wallenbergsalen, C: Sal F800, Hus F, 8 tr D: Sal F900, Hus F, 9 tr Lunch Parallell sessions A- D (see below) Break with tea/coffee and cake Book presentation Grönlund, A (red) Glimtar av jämställdhet ( Glimpses of Gender Equality ) Book presentation Hobson, B (ed) Worklife Balance: The Agency and Capabilities Gap Concluding words A: B: Wallenbergsalen, C: Sal F800, Hus F, 8 tr D: Sal F900, Hus F, 9 tr

2 Keynote speaker Ellen E Kossek As the inaugural elected President of the U.S. based international Work- Family Researchers Network and a leading work- family scholar, Dr. Ellen Ernst Kossek will discuss some current trends in work family research related to individual and organizational interventions and change. She will also share information on the Work Family Researcher Network. Dr. Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management at Krannert School of Management and the Research Director of Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale Univeristy in organizational behavior and her research has won many awards. Her work was recently featured in the Financial Times. 11e3-9f feab7de.html For more information, see Work- Family Researchers Network:

3 SESSION A Reinholdsalen Åsa Löfström Time for Men to Catch Up on Women? Anne Boschini Magnus Bygren Michael Gähler Anni Pajunen Helena Pettersson Mid- life Incomes of Men and Women in Sweden Do Employers Discriminate Against Mothers? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Swedish Labor Market Coping with the Family, Career Development and Academic Mobility Reinholdsalen Lisa Harrysson The Process of Resignation in Everyday Life: Gendered Practices in Domestic Work and Experiences of Health and Illness among Women and Men Rense Nieuwenhuis Marianne Sundström Alma Wennemo Lanninger Anna- Lena Almqvist Gayle Kaufman Family Policies, Women s Earnings and Between- Household Inequality: Trends in 18 OECD Countries from 1981 to 2005 Gender Convergence in Part- Time Work in the Nordic Countries and Social Policy Fathers, Work and Family in Sweden and the US

4 SESSION B Wallenbergsalen Aycan Celikakosoy Intermarriage: For Better, For Worse Jenny Alsarve Christine Roman Ragni Hege Kitterød Marit Rönsen Ida Viklund Working It Out. Lone Mothers Strategies to Reconcile Paid Work and Caring Responsibilities Does More Involved Fathering Imply a Double Burden for Fathers? Evidence from Norway Women s and Men s Parental Leave Wallenbergsalen Martin Dribe Educational Homogamy and Household Division of Labor. Maria Stanfors Evidence from Sweden Sigtona Halrynjo Fathers Parental Leave and Career in Norwegian Elite Selma Therese Lyng Professions Marie Evertsson Signaling Care? Changes in Women s and Men s Wage Outcome after Parental Leave Taking in Sweden?

5 SESSION C Sal F800 Sofia Elwér Lisa Harrysson Pernilla Andersson Joona Patterns of Gender Equality at Workplaces and Sick Leave Self- Employment among Mothers with Young Children in Sweden Mai Camilla Munkejord Sofi Ohlsson- Wijk Family- Firm Embeddedness among Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Rural Norway Type of Occupation and First- Birth Patterns for Men and Women in Sweden Sal F800 Karin Hederos Eriksson Occupational Segregation by Sex: The Role of Intergenerational Transmission Cecilia von Otter Cecilia Nahnfeldt Peter Friedrich High- status Employment among Women a Longitudinal Study of the Role of Occupational Gender Preferences in Childhood "Talking about managing work and all the other stuff in life": A method for case dialogues in the workplace Organisational Development in SMEs to Balance Work- Life Learning

6 SESSION D Sal F900 Petra Ulmanen Caregiving to Older People: Effects on Everyday Life and Work Life among Middle- Aged Women and Men in Sweden Ylva Moberg Emma Hagqvist Elin Peterson Same- Sex and Opposite- Sex Couples: How Does the Gender Composition in Couples Matter for the Within- Family Income Gap before and after Childbirth? Could Family- Friendly Policies be a Factor for Strong Gender Egalitarianism? The Case of Sweden and Spain Framing Care Work in the Family Care Regime: An Analysis of Spanish Eldercare Policy Sal F900 Laure Doctrinal Childcare Policies in Comparative Perspective: a Sebastian Sirén Framework for Institutional Analysis Daniel Avdic Gender Differences in Preferences for Health- Related Absenteeism Carita Håkansson Balance Between Work, Play, Rest and Sleep Jean- Charles Languilare An Alternative Work/Non- Work Experience? Setting a Research Agenda for Work- Life Research for Alternative Lifestyles

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