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University of Maryland * Work and Family Research in the First Decade of the 21 st Century

@inproceedings{Bianchi2010UniversityOM,
  title={University of Maryland * Work and Family Research in the First Decade of the 21 st Century},
  author={Suzanne M. Bianchi and Melissa A. Milkie},
  year={2010}
}
Scholarship on work and family topics expanded in scope and coverage during the 2000 – 2010 decade, spurred by an increased diversity of workplaces and of families, by methodological innovations, and by the growth of communities of scholars focused on the work-family nexus. We discuss these developments as the backdrop for emergent work-family research on six central topics: (a) gender, time, and the division of labor in the home; (b) paid work: too much or too little; (c) maternal employment… 
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