Virtual Plenary: The Year’s Best Work-Family Research: 2024 Kanter Award Finalists Present Their Research

This event recognized and illuminated findings from articles selected as finalists for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.

Dates/Times

• GMT/London Friday Sept 13, 2024 4:00-5:30pm
• Los Angeles, USA  Friday Sept 13, 2024 8:00am-9:30am PDT
• New York, USA  Friday Sept 13, 2024 11am-12:30pm EDT
• Seoul, South Korea  Saturday Sept 14, 2024 12:00am-1:30am KST
• Melbourne, Australia Saturday Sept 14, 2024 1:00-2:30am AEST

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Organizers/Presiders

• Jennifer Hook, Ph.D., University of Southern California
• Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Jennifer Sabatini Fraone, MA, MSW, Boston College

Winners

Conzon, V. M. (2023). The equality policy paradox: Gender differences in how managers implement gender equality–related policies. Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(3), 648-690. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392231174235

Wayne, J. H., Mills, M. J., Wang, Y. R., Matthews, R. A., & Whitman, M. V. (2023). Who’s remembering to buy the eggs? The meaning, measurement, and implications of invisible family load. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38(6), 1159-1184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-023-09887-7

 Finalists

Chan‐Serafin, S., Sanders, K., Wang, L., & Restubog, S. L. D. (2023). The adoption of human resource practices to support employees affected by intimate partner violence: Women representation in leadership matters. Human Resource Management, 62(5), 745-764. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22157

Engeman, C. (2023). Making parenting leave accessible to fathers: Political actors and new social rights, 1965–2016. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 30(4), 1137-1161. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac038

Hara, Y. (2023). Gender differences in scaling back: Family formation and aspirations toward work achievement among Japanese adults. Socius, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231157682

About the Award and Recipients

The Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family established the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award in 2000 to raise the awareness of high-quality work-family research among the scholar, consultant, and practitioner communities. The Kanter Award identifies the highest-quality research in this interdisciplinary field each year and is now among the most prestigious recognitions in the work-life field.

No applications or nominations are accepted for this award; instead, a panel of over 70 reviewers from more than a dozen countries examine all articles published in a given year in more than 80 leading English-language journals from around the world.

After finalists are determined by the review committee, members of the Workforce Roundtable, (hosted by the Boston College Center for Work and Family) are asked to review the articles to identify which of the ‘best of the best’ studies has the greatest potential for impacting workplace practices.

Workforce Roundtable members are human resources professionals representing some of the world’s leading employers and collectively more than 4 million employees. As the Kanter Award continues to partner with these employers, the awareness of high-quality work-family research continues to rise, and actionable findings from the best studies become more accessible business communities to inform policy and best practices.