The conference met in plenary session to hear WFRN President Phyllis Moen’s address and the wrap-up to Practitioner Day, and to experience the unveiling of the special multimedia exhibit “ Showing (work x family).” The plenary session on Friday, June 24, featured a distinguished panel of international researchers and the conferring of the Rosabeth Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research as well as a special award honoring Judi Casey for her contributions to WFRN. Some 650 work-family researchers and experts across many disciplines and perspectives and from 47 countries explored the theme, “ Careers, Care, and Life-Course ‘Fit:’ Implications for Health, Equality, and Policy,” in symposia sessions, discussion forums, poster sessions, workshops, and author-meets critic and book dialogue sessions. with a special Work Family Education and Policy Day and a Congressional Briefing preceding the conference on June 22. The 2016 conference of the Work and Family Researchers Network was held on June 23-25, 2016 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

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