Institutional Perspectives on Law, Work, and Family

• DOI: 10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112803
• Publication Date: 2007-08-16T17:57:12Z
• Authors: Catherine Albiston
• Keywords: Empirical Research; Work–family conflict

Work and family scholarship increasingly focuses on how institutions constrain the choices of families struggling to balance market work with care work. Recent legal reforms, including Family Medical Leave Act, also focus institutional reform alleviate work/family conflict. This article reviews important empirical questions raised by this turn in both law social science. How have changes contributed conflict? Have reforms produced more egalitarian sharing between men women? do organizations respond these mandates? organizational cultural hindered or given support laws that attempt relationship family? Empirical research indicates brought about but entrenched practices norms around work, family, gender continue generate resistance change.