Session 53:
Work and Family
Chair: Vanessa Wight, University of Maryland
Discussant: Liana C. Sayer, Ohio State University
Discussant: Philip N. Cohen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Importance of Work: Changing Work Commitment Following the Transition to Parenthood • Marie M. Evertsson, Swedish Institute for Social Research ; Richard Breen, Yale University
Explaining Trends in “Opting Out” among Women, 1981-2006 • Cordelia Reimers, City University of New York ; Pamela Stone, Hunter College (CUNY)
Influences of Family Structure and Partner Characteristics on Mothers’ Employment Trajectories • Christine Percheski, Princeton University
Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking • Christopher Ruhm, University of North Carolina at Greensboro ; Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Other sessions on Marriage, Family, Households and Unions
