Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWeb) February 23, 2007 -- Alliance for Work-Life Progress (AWLP), the leading not-for-profit professional work-life association, in partnership with The Center for Families at Purdue University and The Center for Work and Family at Boston College, recently announced the recipients of the 2007 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research Award. Hadas Mandel and Moshe Semyonov are the 2007 honorees for the single best piece of work-family research published during a calendar year.

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2007 Kanter Award Winners: Hadas Mandel, a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Moshe Semyonov, a professor from Tel Aviv University, co-authored "Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps: Sources of Earnings Inequality in 20 Countries."

Hadas Mandel, a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Moshe Semyonov, a professor from Tel Aviv University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, co-authored "Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps: Sources of Earnings Inequality in 20 Countries." The work was published in the December 2005 issue of American Sociological Review, the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association.

By looking at the differences among 20 countries' family policies, the researchers found that gender earnings disparities are less pronounced in countries with developed family policies. Although "mother-friendly" policies enable more women to become economically active, they may also exacerbate gender occupational inequality.

The award is named for Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has been identified by leading scholars as the person having the most influence on the modern research literature on work and family. The proposals contained in her 1977 monograph "Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Agenda for Research and Policy" remain timely more than a quarter-century later.

No external nominations are accepted for the award. Instead, every article published in a large number of scientific journals is scrutinized by a large committee of esteemed scholars who generate a list of candidates for the award.

The researchers were honored on February 21, 2007, at the 11th Annual Work-Life Conference & Exhibition, in Phoenix, Ariz.

Past Kanter Award recipients have included: Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, Marybeth Mattingly and Susan M. Bianchi, and Michelle J. Budig. For more information about the Kanter Award and its past recipients, visit www.awlp.org/award.

About Alliance for Work-Life Progress®
Alliance for Work-Life Progress (www.awlp.org) is a global network of professionals committed to advancing work-life effectiveness. Founded in 1996, AWLP® facilitates work-life thought leadership, research and practical strategies to influence better integration of work, family and community. AWLP is part of WorldatWork (www.worldatwork.org), the total rewards association.

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