Category: Kanter Lecture

March 6, 2026

Watch the Kanter Lecture: How Supervisor Training Transforms Employee Exhaustion and Family Engagement

Watch the Recording – Learn how small changes in leadership and workplace culture can make a big difference in well-being, performance, and family engagement at this year’s Kanter Lecture, Kanter Award Finalist, Ellen Ernst Kossek highlighted how training supervisors to be more supportive can help employees feel less burned out and more engaged.

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April 9, 2025

WATCH THE LECTURE Kanter Lecture explores the implications of ‘invisible family load’ for employee health & well-being, job attitudes, and family-to-work spillover

CFF SPEAKER SERIES On April 8, Kanter Award Winner Dr. Julie Holliday Wayne brought her research that draws on five different studies to conceptualize and operationalize “invisible family load”, and it provides a new, robust, and well-validated measure of that...
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March 28, 2025

WATCH THE LECTURE Kanter Lecture to explore the implications of ‘invisible family load’ for employee health & well-being, job attitudes, and family-to-work spillover

CFF SPEAKER SERIES On April 8, Kanter Award Winner Dr. Julie Holliday Wayne brings her research that draws on five different studies to conceptualize and operationalize “invisible family load”, and it provides a new, robust, and well-validated measure of that work.

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March 27, 2024

Watch the Kanter Lecture: Uncovering social stratification: Intersectional inequalities in work and family life courses by gender and race

On March 28, Kanter Award Winner Dr. Anette Fasang discussed her findings about intersectional life course perspective on gendered and racialized combinations of work and family lives from early adulthood to mid-life, and the long-term perspective that maps enduring and...
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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.
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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