Resources
Williams, Joan, Unbending Gender: Why Work and Family Conflict and What To Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000). Available from amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, borders.com, and other booksellers
Facing The Grail: Confronting the Cost of Work-Family Imbalance, Report of the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Professional Challenges and Family Needs (Boston Bar Association, 1999, available at www.bostonbar.org)
More Than Part Time: The Effect of Reduced-Hours Arrangements on the Retention, Recruitment, and Success of Women Attorneys in Law Firms (Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts, 2000) available at http://womenlaw.stanford.edu/mass.rpt.html
Women in Law: Making the Case (Catalyst 2001)
Hiott-Levine, Natalie and Kirsten Scheurer Branigan, Women in the Legal Profession: The Quest to Overcome Barriers to Advancement Continues—Working Toward Meaningful Solutions (Commerce Magazine, Summer 2006).
Legal Talent at the Crossroads: Why New Jersey Women Lawyers Leave Their Law Firms and Why They Choose to Stay, prepared for the New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission, Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education, by The Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University, Teresa M. Boyer, Cynthia Thomas Calvert, and Joan C. Williams in collaboration with Dianne Mills McKay, Chair, Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Eduction (April 2009), available at http://www.cww.rutgers.edu/Docs/Legal_Talent.pdf.
Ostrow, Ellen, Beyond The Billable Hour, newsletter about work/life balance for attorneys (www.lawyerslifecoach.com)
Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons Graduate School of Management (numerous articles available at the publications page)
Boston College Center for Work & Family
The National Partnership for Women and Families
Work-Family Researchers Electronic Network, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
The Kunz Center for Research on Work, Family, & Gender, Department of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati
The Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL) at Emory University
The Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life (CEEL) at the University of Michigan
The M.I.T Workplace Center, which is devoted to building—in theory and in practice—a mutually supportive relationship between the performance of firms and the well being of employees, their families, and communities
The University of California Hastings Center for WorkLife Law, which researches the employment discrimination faced by parents and and other caregivers.
