Category: Event

February 1, 2023

Stephanie Land on campus March 1 for Perrucci-Cummings Lecture Series

Stephanie Land, author of New York Times Bestseller and inspiration for the Netlfix Original Series, Maid, will be at Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom, doors open at 6pm, event begins at 6:30pm. There will be a Q&A and book signing...

January 6, 2023

Kanter Lecture to explore mechanisms contributing to inequality in academic careers in science and engineering

On February 24, Kanter Award Finalist Dr. Sarah Thébaud will explore her findings that offer novel insight into mechanisms contributing to inequality in academic careers.

January 5, 2023

25th Family Impact Seminar: Protecting New Hoosiers and their Parents

Family Impact Seminars share recent evidence and useful policy strategies in a nonpartisan setting to allow open dialogue to find common ground on policy and programs that affect Hoosier families for the upcoming legislative session.

April 1, 2022

CFF Celebrates 25th Anniversary

The Center for Families and the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue Universityheld a joint anniversary celebration on April 1, marking 25 years for CFF and 20 for MFRI. The event, titled “Forging Better Futures for Families,” attracted a capacity...

January 27, 2022

Explaining the persistence of gender inequality: The work–family narrative as a social defense against the 24/7 work culture

Drs. Irene Padavic and Robin Ely as they present highlights of their 2021 Kanter Award-winning paper.

March 29, 2021

Work-home boundary role transitions: Telework before, during and after COVID-19

2021 Kanter Lecture: Dr. Joni Delanoeije, 2020 Kanter Award Nominee

February 28, 2021

WINNER: Reconceptualizing what and how women negotiate for career advancement

2020 Kanter Award Winner Announced: The Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family are delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Hannah...

February 28, 2019

Invisible families, invisible conflicts: Work-family conflict for LGB families

2019 Kanter Lecture: Dr. Katina Sawyer's research which calls attention to the overly restricted assumptions about “family” in prior WFC research, and seeks to serve as an impetus for aligning WFC research more fully with the complex realities of modern...

May 29, 2018

My Family Made me do it: Family-Work Conflict and Abusive Supervision

2018 Kanter Lecture: Dr. Stephen Courtright discussed his Kanter Award winning research which answers the more critical question of why supervisors behave abusively toward subordinates, in an effort to understand its causes and decrease its occurrence.

March 29, 2017

Professional image maintenance: How women navigate pregnancy in the workplace

2017 Kanter Lecture: Dr. Laura Little’s 2016 Kanter Award nominated research expands the understanding of experiences pregnant women face by examining motives and strategies they use to manage their professional images at work.