"Work-family balance from a Swedish perspective",
presentation at UN Expert Group Meeting
on family policies on June 1-3, 2011 in New York.

Jonas Himmelstrand participated at the UN Expert Group Meeting arranged by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York on June 1-3, 2011. The headline of the meeting was: "Assessing Family Policies: Confronting family poverty and social exclusion & Ensuring work family balance".

The meeting was held as a part of the preparation for the 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family, 2014. Jonas Himmelstrand participated, as an observer and a presenter, in his role as the family research expert of the Swedish family organisation Haro.

The paper, on which Jonas Himmelstrand's presentation at the meeting was based, and the handouts of the powerpoint-presentation, can both be downloaded here:

Work-family balance from a Swedish perspective, paper, 140 kB

Work-Family Balance: Family focused solutions, handouts, 1.9 mB

Jonas Himmelstrand's notes for the actual presentation can be downloaded here;

Work-family balance from a Swedish perspective, presentation, 784 kB