Bias in Charts: Race, Gender, Education, and Income Author: Project LookSharp Activity Description In this media literacy activity, students analyze data visualizations—specifically charts from The New York Times and a blog post—to explore how media can shape perceptions of income disparities related to race, gender, and education. Students will critically assess the design, presentation, and [Read More...]
There was a lot of talk during the presidential campaign about being a country that provides good beginnings for babies. Good beginnings don’t begin at birth, Alejandra Ros Pilarz says, but prenatally - “the most rapid period of brain development with life-long consequences for children's future health and development.” Work-family demands are high during this [Read More...]
"As leaders,” Subha Barry. President of Seramount says, "we constantly face decisions that affect inclusion and exclusion in our workplaces and societies…..Imagine if, instead of viewing those affected by our decisions as nameless, faceless entities, we saw them as our family, friends, and loved ones.” Her own life was deeply affected by just such a [Read More...]
Our review highlights key contributions to the work-family literature, including research published in Personnel Psychology. We review foundational key constructs (e.g., work-family conflict), theories (e.g., boundary management), and methodology and measurement issues (e.g., episodic versus levels approaches) at the intersection of work and family. We then review select topics that move from the more micro (e.g., [Read More...]
Organizational whistleblowers routinely encounter retaliation such as jobloss, ostracism, intimidation, and death threats which can impact their"master status," or core identity. Questions remain about whetherwhistleblowing experiences can "spill over" into homes, affecting familyidentities. This study aimed to understand how spillover related towhistleblowing affected family identity, and to identify communicativefactors which influenced family identity (re)construction. Thirty [Read More...]
Supportive social relationships are vital for health and well‐being asthey serve to ameliorate stress and therefore reduce the likelihood ofsuffering from disease across the life course. This social support could bemore essential for transgender people, who experience unique social stressdue to their marginalized status. The current study compared and contrastedthe experiential accounts of transgender people, [Read More...]
Research has documented associations between relationship stigma,relationship quality and adverse health outcomes among sexual and genderminority couples. However, this work focused primarily on one aspect of anindividual's or a couple's identity rather than understanding theintersections of multiple, stigmatized social identities. As part of a largerproject focused on testing the efficacy of a couples‐based intervention toimprove [Read More...]
Parents have multifaceted identities, across dimensions likerace/ethnicity, gender, and class, which shape their experience ofdiscrimination. However, little is known about how distress from suchmultidimensional discrimination influences parenting behavior andparent–adolescent relationships. We tested associations between mothers'multidimensional discrimination distress and parental control (overcontroland conditional regard) and daughters' attachment, among 82 African American(AA), Hispanic/Latina (HL), and non‐Hispanic White [Read More...]
Retirement timing is associated with health and economic outcomes forolder adults. However, it is unclear how the pressures of supporting olderparents and young adult children are associated with retirement. This studyuses a life course perspective to consider how the linked lives of workingolder adults and their support of adult children and parents are associatedwith retirement. [Read More...]
Are there cultural differences in the extent to which people believe they should follow their passion when pursuing a career? Three experiments demonstrated that people from the United States, which is a more independent culture, evaluate pursuing a passion as a career more favorably than those from Singapore, a less independent culture. When evaluating others [Read More...]