'The Work-Family Challenge' takes a critical look at what is often referred to as 'family friendly' employment, and addresses the question of how to achieve the cultural change in organisations which meets the needs of the contemporary workforce

Since the 1960s the family in the OECD area has undergone significant transformation. In many countries, the extended family has all but disappeared, and the traditional two-parent family has become much less widespread as divorce rates, re-marriages, cohabitation, single parenthood and same-sex...