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Work-Life Highlights by Decade
1970’s
Employers Confronted
with Child Care
August 1970
December 1970
March 1972
June 1975
September 1975
January 1976
October 1977
1970’SEMPLOYERS CONFRONTED WITH CHILD CARE
• Watergate break-in (1972)• Intel invents single chip
processor• Federal Express founded
(1973)• OPEC oil crisis (1973)• US forces leave Vietnam
(1973)• President Nixon resigns
(1974)
• Employee Assistance Programs• White House Conference on
Children (1970)• Federal agencies experiment
with flexible work arrangements
• ERISA becomes law (1974)• Kanter publishes Work & Family
in the United States (1977)• Pregnancy Discrimination Act
(1978)• Aspen Institute Seminar; K.
Christensen introduces concepts of women, work & family (1978)
World Events Work & Family Developments
1980’s
“Work & Family” Spawns an
Industry
February 1982
May 1982
January 1983
May 1983
June 1983
June 1984
July 1984
May 1986
June 1987
December 1989
1980’S “WORK & FAMILY” SPAWNS AN INDUSTRY
• Decade punctuated by mergers and acquisitions
• AIDS is given a name (1981)
• Sandra Day O’Connor named to the Supreme Court (1981)
• Challenger Space Shuttle explodes (1986)
• Berlin Wall comes down (1989)
• Bill to amend FLSA vetoed by President Reagan (1989)
• Fatherhood Project (James Levine, 1981)
• CB Work-Family Research Council established (1983)
• Work/Family Directions (Rodgers, 1983)
• Working Mother Magazine “Best Companies for Mothers” award (1985)
• First Catalyst award conferred (1986)
• Families and Work Institute (1989)
World Events Work & Family Developments
1990’s
Work-Life Becomes Competitive Advantage
July 1990
October 1990
December 1990
April 1991
June 1993
September 1993
November 1993
July 1994
September 1996
March 1997
September 1999
1990’SWORK-LIFE BECOMES COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
• Decade punctuated by downsizing, delayering, and reengineering
• Dot-coms proliferate• Bull market: economy soars• Americans with Disabilities
Act (1990)• Clean Air Act (1990)• Operation Desert Storm
(1991)• O.J. Simpson arrested
(1994)
• Center for Work & Family founded at BU (now at BC) 1990
• Susan Seitel launches Work and Family Newsbrief and Trend Report (1990)
• “Tenure stop clock”• Shellenbargers’s WSJ column
begins (1991)• FWI launches National Study of
the Changing Workforce• FMLA passes (1993) • Alliance for WL Progress
(1996)
World Events Work & Family Developments
2000’s
Expansion of the Work-Life Lens
October 2004
December 2006
2006
June 2007
2000’SEXPANSION OF THE WORK-LIFE LENS
• Terrorism emerges as a global threat
• Global recession and other challenges
• Collapse of the dot-coms• Labor force participation
of married women with children under 18 = 70.1%; children under 6 = 61.8%
• Generational diversity• Stress and overwork rise • Technology: 24X7
connectivity• Shift to culture change
management• Social/public policy focus
– Corporate Voices (2000)• Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Award (2000)• New focus on men
World Events Work & Family Developments
2010
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
October 2010
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