Dr. Camille Desjardins

WFRN.bsky.social (@wfrn.bsky.social) The Work and Family Researchers Network is the premier 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association for work-family scholars and leaders.

Have you registered for the Friday 9/12 WFRN.bsky.social Virtual Conference Series Event? (11 am -12:30 pm EDT). The Year’s Best Work-Family Research: 2025 Kanter Award Finalists Present Their Research. wfrn.org/news/registe...

🚨Last month to apply for the 2026–2027 Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowship (WFRN ECF). wfrn.org/early-career...

✅ Dedicated ECF preconference
✅ ECF travel support fund
✅ ECF peer and professional network
✅ Career development support
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If you are an early career scholar, consider applying to the Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program led by the brilliant Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk.
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2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference - Work and Family Researchers Network ABOUT THE EVENT Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada.  More than 400 scholars and stakeholders will convene to discus...

Join us at the next Work and Family Researchers Network conference.

📅 When: June 17-20, 2026
📍Where:  Concordia University, Montreal
➡️Theme: Centering Care Across the Life Course
❗️Submission deadline: October 1, 2025

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Merci Julien !

#genderequality #motherhoodpenalty #justice

(In)justice Dynamics Around Maternity Leave: How Push and Pull Factors Intertwine to Create Career Disadvantages for Mothers Maternity leave and motherhood are typically associated with severe career penalties for women. Some literature suggests that this may be due to women opting out (i.e., pull dynamics), while other st...

🔗 Want to know more about these dynamics? You can access the article here: doi.org/10.1002/job....

- Injustice events and inactions (push factors) and changing career and work-life priorities (pull factors) are found to influence each other and to exert both direct and indirect effects on career withdrawal over time.

- Women experience injustice events and inactions (push factors) from different entities in their organization, primarily their supervisors.

💡 We conducted 134 interviews with #workingwomen at four points —from #pregnancy announcement to 6 to 8 months upon return to work— and found that:

In this research, we take an organizational justice lens to investigate both the pull and push dynamics surrounding maternity leave.

Some research explains this phenomenon by arguing that women pull out of their careers due to changing career and work-life priorities after #childbirth, while other studies show that women are pushed out by their organizations.

🤰 Maternity leave and #motherhood are typically associated with severe career penalties for women.

So happy to share our new publication with Marion Fortin in the Journal of Organizational Behavior on the career effects of #injustice experiences at work around #maternityleave.

Happening today at AUB as part of #palestineweek

🎥 Film screening and discussion with the filmmaker, researcher and activist, Khadijeh Habashneh.

Join us for an insightful discussion on Palestinian resistance cinema.

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Submit Your Nomination for the WFRN.bsky.social Best Conference Paper Award by June 1, 2024. This award recognizes the author(s) of an original paper identified as the “best conference paper.”https://wfrn.org/news/submit-your-nomination-for-the-wfrn-best-conference-paper-award-by-june-1-2024/

In less than 1 month we'll be addressing Big Questions in Work-Family at the #WFRN2024 conference.
I look forward to presenting my work on women in the gig economy from a work-family angle. If you’re interested in this topic, join the Women at Work session on 20/06, 9-10:30am. @wfrn.bsky.social