National Center for Family & Marriage Research News and Notes - October 2012

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News and Notes

October 2012 

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Welcome

 

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.  

  • Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman, and Oren Pizmony-Levy
  • J. Bart Stykes, Wendy D. Manning, and Susan L. Brown
  • Amanda Geller and Irwin Garfinkel
  • Laura Tach
  •  


    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.

    • Unmarried Boomers More Vulnerable
  • Divorce in Later Life
  • Same-Sex Household Dynamics Sarah Burgoyne
  • Just Released
    • Census Bureau 2009-2011 American Community Survey Estimates 
  • National Health Statistics Reports
  • National Vital Statistics Reports
  • Princeton-Brookings Future of Children 2012 Fall Journal 
  • RAND Report on Military Deployments and Divorce
  • The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

  • 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 

    • The David E. Bell Fellowship
  • The Mortimer Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Demographic Studies
  • 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...

    pnclaster@edinboro.edu 

    slblair@buffalo.edu  

     

    Call for Applications -- Population Council 

    Fred H. Bixby Fellowships 

    Date Due: January 31

    Link to Population Council 

     

     

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