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638 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2011)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0638 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Making a Case for Workplace Flexibility By KATHLEEN CHRISTENSEN and BARBARA SCHNEIDER F ifteen years ago, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation charted a dramatically new direction by developing a program of research, practice, and action to explore the disconnect between the needs of today's families and the demands of U.S. workplaces. Allocating more than a hundred million dollars to this initiative, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Workplace, Work Force and Working Families Program was established to enhance scholarly, busi- ness, and public understanding of the chal- lenges facing today's working families and to identify how the workplace can be restruc- tured to meet employees' work-family needs, as well as employers' performance needs (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2010b). This volume of Kathleen Christensen, previously a professor of psy- chology at the Graduate Center, City University o f New York, founded and directs the Workplace, Work Force and Working Families Program, as well as the Working Longer Program, at the Alfred P Sloan Foundation in New York City. Under her leadership, the foundation in 2002 launched the National Workplace Flexibility Initiative, a collaborative effort designed to make work- place flexi bility a compelling national issue and a stand- ard of the American workplace. The initiative grew out of a decade of Sloan-supported scholarly research on work-family issues. Barbara Schneider is the John A. Hannah Distinguishe(d Professor in the College of Education and Do)ep>artmnt of Sociology at Michigan State University. H(er r esarch focuses primarily on the social context of families and schools and their relationship to adolescent devel>op- ment. She codircted the Center on Parents, Children and Work at the University o f Chicago, which resulted in the book Being Together. Working Apart: Dual- Career Families and the Work-Life Balance (Cambridge University Press 2005). NOTE: We gratefully acknowledge the work of the Focus on Workplace Flexibility conference committee, Lois Backon, Ellen Galinsky, Chai Feldblum, and Katie Corrigan; and the support of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, especially the president, Paul Joskow. We thank Leigh Ann Halas for her help in editing and for- matting all of the articles and Sarah-Kay McDonald for her excellent critique. DOI: 10.1177/0002716211417245 ANNALS, AAPSS, 638, November, 2011 6

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