Ann C. Crouter -- The Long Arm of the Job: Implications for Families
The Center for Research on Families welcomes Ann C. Crouter from the College of Health and Human Development and the Social Science Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University to present The Long Arm of the Job: Implications for Families.
Ann C. Crouter is one of the nation’s leading scholars on issues of work and family. Through her research, she has examined how people's experiences at work affect their health, well-being, psychological development and family relationships; how those experiences affect their parenting and the health, well-being and development of their children; and how family life makes its mark on people when they go to work. Crouter has focused her research on different populations and areas including: youth growing up in dual-earner families; parents in low-income jobs who are raising very young children; and the work-family interface in the hotel industry. She and her colleague Alan Booth co-organize the Penn State Family Symposium and a related series of edited books, the most recent of which is Romance and sex in adolescence and emerging adulthood: Risks and opportunities (2005). Ann C. Crouter is Professor of Human Development, Director of the Social Science Research Institute and Director of the Consortium for Children, Youth, and Families at Penn State. In June she will become the next Dean of the College of Health and Human Development.
Ann Crouter’s presentation is part of CRF’s Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series, a forum which brings nationally recognized speakers with expertise in family research to campus each year. The lecture series began in 1999 though an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson. The speakers provide public lectures, highlighting the importance of research on the family and its implications for public policy. The Center for Research on Families (CRF) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst actively supports and disseminates social and behavioral sciences research on issues relevant to families.
