Dear Friends:
I would like to encourage you to submit a paper for inclusion in the WORK2025 conference. See call for papers in the link above and the sessions that I and Johanna Lammi-Taskula are organizing (presented below). And please share this call for abstracts with colleagues and students.
This will be a hybrid conference. In other words, you can attend in person in Turku Finland; you can also present your research remotely. There are many “streams” included in the conference. Two work-family streams are highlighted below. The deadline for submitting an abstract is next week! (February 20). Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have.
-Jerry Jacobs
9. Work and family
The stream encourages submissions that examine the reciprocal relationships between work and family, broadly defined. Studies of particular occupations, industries, national labor markets, and international comparisons are all welcome. Topics include research on care work, child care, care issues pertaining to older adults and people with disabilities, remote and hybrid work arrangements, and impact of COVID-19 on work and family. Diversity, intersectionality, international and interdisciplinary perspectives are welcome. Coordinator Jerry A. Jacobs jjacobs@upenn.edu
Gender, work and family are entangled in several complex ways. Paid and unpaid work are embodied and person-related, with percussions to gendering society that reach beyond work. It is therefore crucial to analyze how gender relates to the reconciliation of paid work and unpaid family responsibilities, and how this is located in structures, meanings, interactions and subjects constituted and reconstituted in everyday life. In this stream, the questions of gendered work and family life are discussed. Contemporary questions in relation to increasing insecurities and inequalities in relation to gendered work and family life are welcomed. Papers exploring more generally the theme of the conference from gender perspective are welcomed. Coordinator Johanna Lammi-Taskula (johanna.lammi-taskula@thl.fi)