| Janet Gornick
Janet C. Gornick is an associate professor of political science at Baruch College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. As of September 1, 2004, she also is associate director of the Luxembourg Income Study, an international research institute.
Gornick's research focuses on social welfare policy. Most of her work is comparative 'across countries and across the 50 U.S. states' and concerns the effects of family policies on child and family outcomes. Her core interest is in public programs that affect families' capacities to combine employment with care giving.
She is the co-author of Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment, published in 2003 by the Russell Sage Foundation. Families That Work is a comparative study of family leave policy, the regulation of working time, and publicly funded childcare in 12 industrialized countries.
Gornick's academic articles have appeared in the Journal of European Social Policy; the American Sociological Review; the Annual Review of Sociology; the Journal of Policy History; the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis; the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; the Journal of Comparative Family Studies; and in Work, Employment and Society. She also has published in The American Prospect and in Dissent.
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