work-family conflict

Working from home has negative impacts when done in off hours, especially for women

Recent study examines teaching and family commitments alongside public funding and the impact of research achieved through the quality of journal publications and volume of citations

"In an era when there are still few women CEOs and we have yet to elect a woman president, it is important to understand how much motherhood affects the careers of women at the top and to consider how this can be changed," researcher says

Work-family policies reflect and reinforce ideologies about gender: what men and women ‘should’ and ‘shouldn’t’ do, study says

A Journey of Separation

Women add more than 2 hours of daily work, men only 40 minutes.

Rising up the corporate ladder with kids in tow marks women for an extra helping of gender discrimination, new research finds.

A study co-written by a University of Illinois labor and employment relations professor shows that clocking extra hours at the office while juggling family demands takes a toll on the body mass index of individuals in dual-earner families.

The decline and disappearance of stable, unionized full-time jobs with health insurance and pensions for people who lack a college degree has had profound effects on working-class Americans who now are less likely to get married, stay married and have their children within marriage than those with college degrees, a new University of Virginia and Harvard University study has found.

According to research from Amit Kramer, a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois, employees who are more satisfied with their pay report lower levels of work-family conflict.