The Center for Work-Life Policy
Encyclopedia
The Center for Work-Life Policy (CWLP) is a New York City
-based think tank
that undertakes research and works with employers to design, promote, and implement workplace policies that increase productivity and enhance personal/family well-being and general work-life balance
. The CWLP is committed to promoting policies that enable individuals to realize their full potential across the divides of gender
, race and class
.
The CWLP holds that many corporations in today's economy want to better retain and utilize the potential of female and minority professionals. According to the CWLP, workplace policies that address the work-life challenge can benefit the lives of working parents and the lives of their children and simultaneously promote workplace retention, diversity and productivity, thereby improving the bottom line.
Studies conducted by the CWLP have been published in the Harvard Business Review
and are available in a book authored by Sylvia Ann Hewlett titled Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success (Harvard Business Review Press, 2007).
New York City
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-based think tank
Think tank
A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...
that undertakes research and works with employers to design, promote, and implement workplace policies that increase productivity and enhance personal/family well-being and general work-life balance
Work-life balance
Work–life balance is a broad concept including proper prioritizing between "work" on the one hand and "life" on the other. Related, though broader, terms include "lifestyle balance" and "life balance".-History:The work-leisure dichotomy was invented in the mid 1800s...
. The CWLP is committed to promoting policies that enable individuals to realize their full potential across the divides of gender
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
, race and class
Social class
Social classes are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. Class is an essential object of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, economists, anthropologists and social historians. In the social sciences, social class is often discussed in terms of 'social stratification'...
.
The CWLP holds that many corporations in today's economy want to better retain and utilize the potential of female and minority professionals. According to the CWLP, workplace policies that address the work-life challenge can benefit the lives of working parents and the lives of their children and simultaneously promote workplace retention, diversity and productivity, thereby improving the bottom line.
Studies conducted by the CWLP have been published in the Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...
and are available in a book authored by Sylvia Ann Hewlett titled Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success (Harvard Business Review Press, 2007).