Do Babies Matter?: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower

Acknowledgments

xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The “Do Babies Matter?” project has spanned more than ten years and has benefited from the contributions of numerous colleagues. At the University of California, Berkeley, Karie Frasch participated in our research on the careers and lives of graduate students and scientists. She also helped to develop our policy recommendations. This would not be same book without her input. Many other Berkeley colleagues provided valuable assistance , including Carol Hoffman, Sharon Page-Medrich, Angelica Stacy, and Sheldon Zedeck. We would also like to thank Executive Director Ann O’Leary and the Berkeley Law Center for Health, Economics and Family Security for promoting our research on women in science. Special thanks go to Sheila O’Rourke and Ellen Switkes, then at the UC Office of the President, for helping to successfully support, implement, and sustain the UC Family Friendly Initiative, and to Berkeley Chancellors Robert Berdahl and Robert Birgeneau for supporting and promoting our research, and helping to implement the resulting policies. The UC Council of Graduate Deans was also instrumental in obtaining permission to survey graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and in promoting new family-friendly initiatives. At the University of Utah, we benefited from discussions with Carrie Byington , Kathleen Digre, Joanne Yaffe, Cathleen Zick, and the Utah Demographic Network. Sonja Anderson, Jackie Griffith, Bin Emma Liang, and Alta Williams provided expert research assistance, while Cindy Brown, Marilyn Cox, Sandra Earl, and Sandy Stark furnished able administrative support. At the National Science Foundation, we thank Maurya Green, Kelly Kang, Nirmala Kannankutty, Adrian McQueen, and Keith Wilkinson for their assistance with the Survey of Doctorate Recipients. The use of NSF data does not imply NSF endorsement of research methods or conclusions contained in this book. Korey Capozza served as our editor over the past eight years. She worked tirelessly and cheerfully to make our often murky prose more readable. Without her help, our work might never have come to fruition. We owe her a great debt of gratitude. xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Andy Roth kindly read the entire manuscript. His comments produced a clearer and more logically consistent book. Other colleagues who provided valuable suggestions over the years include Richard Ingersoll, Jerry Jacobs, Matthew McKeever, Phil Morgan, Benita Roth, Sharon Sassler, and Ann Marie Wood. Generous extramural funding made this research possible. Both the Association for Institutional Research and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided multiple years of funding, and we are grateful. At Sloan, Kathleen Christensen deserves much credit as our long-term supporter. At Rutgers we thank our editor, Peter Mickulas, and our series editor, Karen Hansen, for their enthusiasm for this project. It goes without saying that this book wouldn’t exist without their support. Romaine Perin also deserves great thanks for her astute copyediting. Nick Wolfinger owes a special debt to two mentors. Bill Mason taught him to think carefully and creatively about quantitative data, providing lessons that will inform a lifetime of scholarship. Paul Sniderman has been a constant source of wise professional counsel, instrumental for navigating the rocky shoals of academia. Finally, Nick thanks Eric Magnuson, a debt long past due, for a very different sort of academic advice. Do Babies Matter? ...