Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments We want to express our deep appreciation to all of the people who helped us to write this book. We thank Derek Krissoff for seeing the potential in our idea and for his enthusiastic and expert guidance , Molly Thompson for excellent copyediting suggestions, and Jon Davies and the rest of the University of Georgia Press team for all their help in bringing the book to print. We thank our many Macalester College colleagues who provided enormous support and guidance for our research by offering advice , sharing their insights and experience, and serving as sounding boards for our thoughts and arguments: Jack Weatherford, David McCurdy, Sonia Patten, Arjun Guneratne, Sarah West, Terry Boychuk, Barbara Laskin, Dan Balik, Diane Michelfelder, and Kathy Murray. We also are grateful for the support of Kate Abbott, Gabrielle Lawrence, and Helen Warren of the Macalester Development Office. We thank Brad Belbas for helping us to implement our online survey and for technical support. Macalester College supported this project through both a grant and sabbatical leaves, which allowed us time to collaborate and to write. Many other individuals helped shape this study in important ways. We thank Nora Johnson for excellent assistance with interviewing and transcription. We also are grateful to Macalester students and staff Tara Hottman, Melinda Studer, Joey Dobson, Mark Saldana, Josh Paulson, and Jane Kollasch, who helped with graphics, proofreading, and administrative assistance. Many more Macalester students contributed to this work through their thoughtful classroom engagement with issues raised by this book. We appreciate the input of Michael Paolisso, Ray Hames, and Kathy xiv Acknowledgments Oths of the National Science Foundation Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology Program, who gave us critical feedback on our survey design. Jennifer Keil provided important economic insights. Elrena Evans, Donna Gilleskie, Marianne Ferber, Charlanne Burke, and Susan Rabiner provided insightful comments and helpful suggestions on the manuscript. Most importantly, we are indebted to the many women and men who took the time to talk with us about the joys, triumphs, and challenges they encountered in raising their families. Many friends, particularly the women in our book club, supported this project in so many ways, especially in listening to us think through our ideas. Finally, we thank our families for their love and for the patience they showed to us at every stage of writing this book. Dianna acknowledges , with gratitude, the sacrifices her parents, Gary and Joy Shandy, made to let education be such a transformative force in her own coming-of-age story. She is indebted to her husband, David Power, and her children, Rhetta and Oran, for their many kindnesses , their patience, and their support throughout the writing of this book, and always. Karine is deeply grateful for the unwavering support of her parents, Roy and Rigmor Swensen. She thanks her children, Avery and Halsey, who bring joy to the struggle of balancing work and family. And especially, she thanks her husband, Paul, for cheerleading, proofreading, taking on so much of the second shift, and, as always, for being her best friend. Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples This page intentionally left blank ...