Workplace, Work Force and Working Families
Kathleen Christensen, Program Director
Basic Research on Working Families and Everyday Life
Today, the work-family field is a vibrant community of scholars producing research that is relevant in both depth and breadth. Prior to the start of the Workplace, Work Force and Working Families program in 1994, social science research was bifurcated into the study of work or family. Little, if any research examined the intersection of work and family. The goal of the basic research grant area is to create a problem-focused, interdisciplinary field of work-family scholarship that exists beyond the work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
To creat the work-family field, the Foundation focuses on three specific tasks:
- Building a community of scholars
- Creating a body of quality research
- Training the next generation of scholars