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News and Notes

October 2012 

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The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to our monthly electronic newsletter News and Notes. 

 

News and Notes aims to inform you about the activities of the NCFMR. We will update you on current research findings, announce research opportunities, and provide registration details for upcoming conferences and workshops.


Women's Employment Rates Highest
Among the Divorced

 

Over half (53%) of women in the U.S. are currently employed. Rates differ only slightly by marital status. Divorced women have the highest percentage employed at 61% followed closely by currently married and never married women at 57% and 56%, respectively. Only 17% of widowed women are employed.

 

 

Employment Rate for Women Aged 16 and Older
by Marital Status, 2010

Bar Graph
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey,
1-Year Estimates, 2010.

 

What's New at the NCFMR...
 

Family Profiles

Original reports summarizing and analyzing nationally representative data with the goal to provide the latest analysis of U.S. families.  

  

Working Paper Series    

A series of working papers written by faculty affiliates, researchers, and advanced graduate students examining family structure topics of interest to family scholars, policy makers, and practitioners.  

 


NCFMR in the News
For a full list of NCFMR in the News items and for media links to each item, visit the NCFMR in the News webpage.


Just Released

Upcoming Events 

 

 

November 2012 

 

Theory Construction and Research Methodology (TCRM) Workshop

Dates: November 1-2

Link to NCFR 

 

Call for Proposals -- The Foundation for Child Development: Changing Faces of America's Children Young Scholars Program

Date Due: November 1

Link to Foundation for Child Development 

 

Call for Papers -- The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
Widows and Bereavement
Date Due: November 1

Call for Abstracts -- Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR)
Innovations in Methods, Theory and Policy Relevance
Due Date: November 2

Eighth Biennial Meeting -- Society for the Study of Human Development
(SSHD)
Rethinking Developmental Science Across the Lifespan/Life Course: Theory, Methods, and Applications
Dates: November 3-5
Call for Proposals -- Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference

Date Due: November 9

Link to WREC 2013 

 

Postdoctoral Fellowships -- Harvard Center for Population Studies

Date Due: November 30 

Call for Proposals -- Groves Conference for Marriage and Families, 2013

"And Justice for All," Families and the Criminal Justice System

Date Due: November 30

Link to NCFR 

 

 

December 2012

 

Call for Papers -- Special Issue of Family Relations

Families and Disabilities

Date Due: December 14

Link to NCFR 

 

Request for Proposals -- The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI)

Poverty, Inequality, & Mobility Among Hispanics

Date Due: December 15 

Link to CPI 

 

Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report

Families and Spirituality

Date Due: December 21

 

 

January 2013

 

Call for Papers -- American Sociological Association (ASA) 

2013 Interrogating Inequality: Linking Micro and Macro

Date Due: January 9

Link to ASA 

 

Call for Papers -- Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research

Visions of the 21st Century Family: Transforming Structures and Identities

Date Due: January 10 

Direct questions to the editors at...

[email protected] 

[email protected]  

 

Call for Applications -- Population Council 

Fred H. Bixby Fellowships 

Date Due: January 31

Link to Population Council 

 

 

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Dr. Wendy Manning

 

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Hsueh-Sheng Wu 

 

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Larry Gibbs

 

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Breana Wilson

 

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The National Center for Family & Marriage Research, established in 2007 by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, aims to improve our understanding of how family structure and marriage affect the health and well-being of families, adults, children, and communities and to inform policy development and programmatic responses.

 

 
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This project was supported with a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation grant 5 UOI AE00000I-05. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author(s) and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of any agency of the Federal government.

 


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