Janet Gornick earned her Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 1994. She is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Since 2006, she has also served as Director of LIS (formerly, the Luxembourg Income Study), a cross‐national data archive and research center located in Luxembourg. Most of her research is comparative, across the industrialized countries, and concerns social welfare policies and their impact on family well‐being, gender equality, and income inequality.