Janet Gornick

Janet C. Gornick is Associate Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, and at the Graduate School, of the City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and Social Relations (Harvard 1980), a Masters Degree in Public Administration (Harvard 1987), and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government (Harvard 1994).

Professor Gornick teaches courses in the politics of public policy, the history of American social welfare policy, policy analysis, and policy evaluation.

Her 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 caregiving, such as child care, maternity and parental leave, the regulation of working time, and income transfers targeted on families with children.

Her academic articles have appeared in The Journal of European Social Policy; The American Sociological Review; 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 Work, Employment and Society. She has also published in The American Prospect and in Dissent.

Currently, she is collaborating with Professor Marcia Meyers (University of Washington) on a book on family policy and gender equality; the book draws heavily on lessons from other countries.