Janet Gornick (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Professor Gornick teaches courses on public policy, social welfare policy, policy analysis, and policy evaluation. Most of her research concerns the effects of social policies on the economic wellbeing of families and on gender equality in the labor market. She is co-author of Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment (Russell Sage Foundation 2003), and has published academic articles in the American Sociological Review; the Annual Review of Sociology; Social Science Quarterly, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; the Journal of European Social Policy, and the Journal of Policy History.
In September 2006, she became Director of the Luxembourg Income Study, a cross-national research center and data archive, based in Luxembourg.
Professor Gornick lives in Manhattan.
Phone: 646 312-4422
Office: Vertical Campus, room 5-284
E-mail: Janet_Gornick@baruch.cuny.edu
Courses Taught (click course number for sample syllabus)
POL 3005 Social Welfare Policy
Selected Publications (click for full text)
Gornick, Janet C., and Marcia K. Meyers. 2006. “Entre Travail Rémunéré et Responsabilités Familiales, le Rôle des États Providence: Un Regard Américain sur la Prise en Compte du Care dans les Politiques Sociales Européennes.” (“Welfare Regimes in Relation to Paid Work and Care: A View from the United States on Social Protection in the European Countries.”) La Revue Française des Affaires Sociales (The French Review of Social Affairs) (1/2006): 187-212.
Gornick, Janet C., and Marcia K. Meyers. 2004. “More Alike Than Different: Re-Assessing the Long-Term Prospects for Developing ‘European-Style’ Work-Family Policy in the United States.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 6(3):251-273.
Gornick, Janet C. 2004. “Women’s Economic Outcomes, Gender Inequality, and Public Policy: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study.” Socio-Economic Review 2: 213-238.
Rosenfeld, Rachel, Heike Trappe, and Janet C. Gornick. 2004. “Gender and Work in Germany: Before and After Reunification.” Annual Review of Sociology 30: 103-134.
Meyers, Marcia K. and Janet C. Gornick. 2003. “Public or Private Responsibility? Early Childhood Education and Care, Inequality, and the Welfare State.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 34 (3): 379-411.
Gornick, Janet C., and Marcia K. Meyers. 2001. “Lesson-Drawing in Family Policy: Media Reports and Empirical Evidence about European Developments.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. 3(1): 31-57.
Meyers, Marcia K., Janet C. Gornick, and Laura R. Peck. 2001. “Packaging Support for Low-Income Families: Policy Variation Across the U.S. States.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20(3): 457-483.
Gornick, Janet C., and Jerry A. Jacobs. 1998. "Gender, The Welfare State, and Public Employment: A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries." American Sociological Review 63(5): 688-710.
Gornick, Janet C., Marcia K. Meyers, and Katherin E. Ross. 1998. "Public Policies and the Employment of Mothers: A Cross-National Study." Social Science Quarterly 79(1): 35-54.