Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments WE ARE THANKFUL to several colleagues who have critiqued our work over the years and published portions of it in various venues, especially Tim Smeeding, Lee Rainwater, Diane Sainsbury, Bob Kuttner, Sheila Kamerman, and Al Kahn. We also thank participants at a number of seminars for their valuable comments on elements of the book—including Fran Blau, Jody Heymann, Ellen Bravo, Heidi Hartmann, Theda Skocpol , Shelly Lundberg, Elaina Rose, Julie Brines, Bob Plotnick, Becky Pettit, Heather Boushey, Randy Albelda, and Joan Williams. Other friends and colleagues contributed generously along the way, including Nancy Folbre, Paula England, Suzanne Bianchi, Nancy Segal, Jay Bainbridge, Katherin Ross Phillips, Jodie LevinEpstein , and Willem Adema. We especially thank our colleagues with whom we collaborated on empirical work presented in this book, including Harriet Presser, Anne Gauthier, Jerry Jacobs, and Elena Bardasi. We are grateful to our excellent research assistants, especially Karrie Snyder, Keri-Nicole Dillman, Shahid Chaudhary, Lisa Kahraman , Amy Bailey, Elisha Breshears, and Se-Ook Jeong. We thank Dan Cahill for contributing his editing skills and for reminding us to write in English. We are grateful to the staff of the Luxembourg Income Study for their generous assistance on many occasions, including Caroline de Tombeur, Paul Alkemade, and Kati Foley. Several scholars helped us check our social policy facts, including Shirley Gatenio, Michelle Neuman, and—from the individual countries—Koen Vleminckx and Georges Hedebouw (Belgium ), Shelley Phipps (Canada), Jytte Juul Jensen (Denmark), Katja Forssen (Finland), Christophe Starzec (France), Irene Din- xii Families That Work geldey and Heike Trappe (Germany), Monique Borsenberger (Luxembourg), Laura Den Dulk (the Netherlands), Charlotte Koren (Norway), Johan Fritzell (Sweden), and Lucinda Platt (the United Kingdom). We give our thanks to them all. All remaining errors are entirely our responsibility. We are grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and especially Kathleen Christensen, for supporting our research on family leave policy. We are especially thankful to Eric Wanner and the Russell Sage Foundation for financial and intellectual support. We are grateful to Suzanne Nichols for her input along the way and for securing three anonymous reviewers whose attention to our manuscript surpassed our wildest dreams. We also thank our extended families, our friends, and our partners for inspiring us to become researchers and teachers, for showing us that women and men are more alike than different, and for teaching us to treasure children, especially those born without the privileges that we have had. We are also deeply grateful to them for listening to us, for arguing with us, and for holding our hands as we worked for too long on this book. ...