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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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2010

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

October 2010