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Maria Charles is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her research explores patterns and processes of social inequality. Recent work has focused on understanding international similarities and differences in women's roles in the labor market and higher education. She is the coauthor of Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men (with David Grusky, Stanford University Press, 2004), and “Equal But Separate? A Cross-National Study of Sex Segregation in Higher Education” (with Karen Bradley, American Sociological Review 67:573–99, 2002). She is currently exploring differences among more and less industrialized countries in the factors influencing men's and women's educational investments.

Paula England is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Her research and teaching have focused on gender inequality at work and home and on integrating sociological, economic, demographic, and feminist perspectives. She is the author of Comparable Worth (1992) and Households, Employment, and Gender (with George Farkas, 1986). Currently, she is working on research on the differential determinants of women and men initiating divorce. She is also working on a project mapping trends in the sex segregation of college majors and fields of doctoral study since 1970. Finally, she is working on a mixed-method qualitative/quantitative study leading to an volume coedited with Kathryn Edin called Unmarried Couples with Children. From 1994 to 1996 she was editor of the American Sociological Review. She was the 1999 recipient of the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award for career contributions to the study of gender. She has held positions at the University of Texas-Dallas, University of Arizona, University of Pennsylvania, and Northwestern University.

Margarita Estévez-Abe is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. Her research compares social policies and economic institutions in Japan and other advanced industrial countries. She is the author of Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She is presently working on a book manuscript titled Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism that examines gendered consequences of different models of capitalism.

Torben Iversen is Professor in the Government Department at Harvard. His research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, electoral politics, and applied formal theory. He is the author of Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and numerous articles on voting, distributive politics, and economic performance. He is currently working on book-length projects on the political representation of economic interests (with David Soskice) and on the political economy of gender (with Frances Rosenbluth).

Kimberly Morgan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University and was previously a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale University. Her research and teaching interests include women and politics, the welfare state in Europe and the United States, and health care policy and politics. Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and Society, Social Politics, and the Journal of Policy History. Currently, she is completing a manuscript on the politics of child care and mothers' employment policies in advanced industrialized states.

Frances Rosenbluth is Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Director of the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy. She is a specialist in Japanese and comparative political economy and has just finished editing a book titled The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility. She has authored or coauthored (with Mark Ramseyer) three previous books on Japanese politics. In addition to research on the political economy of gender with Torben Iversen and David Soskice, she has recently been working on a variety of topics, including female legislative representation (with Rob Salmond and Michael Thies), coalition governments (with Kathy Bawn), comparative judicial politics (with John Ferejohn and Chuck Shipan), and war and constitutions (with John Ferejohn).

David Soskice is Research Professor of Political Science at Duke University, on long-term leave of absence from the Wissenschaftszentrum für Socialforschung Berlin (WZB), where he was Director of the Research Institute for Economic Change and Employment since 1990. He currently also holds a part-time position as Adjunct Research Professor at the...

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