Work-family justice - meanings and possibilities: introduction to the work and family researchers network special issue

Work-family justice is a key organizing concept centering intellectual and policy work that calls attention to tensions and challenges in work and family integration and highlights key solutions. This special issue extends knowledge about structural, cultural, historical, and political factors that inform the range of diverse work-family complexities. It presents building blocks to sustain healthier work and family lives that are central to the ideas of work-family justice. In this introductory article, we discuss changes, issues and tensions in the realms of work and family, and we advocate for assessing the intersection of work-family through a global lens. We build upon earlier rigorous scholarship ascertaining the best supports for a healthy and fulfilled workforce and populace, which can advance equality and sustain and improve wellbeing. The special issue introduction also highlights exceptional individual research studies, that - as a whole - elevate work-family scholarship and the solutions that can enhance work-family justice.