Janet C. Gornick

Janet Gornick, a professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), studies social welfare policies and how they impact an array of socio-economic inequalities, including gender disparities in the labor market and income and wealth inequality. Since 2016, she has served as director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center, and she holds the inaugural James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Distinguished Chair in Socio-Economic Inequality. From 2006 to 2016, she served as director of LIS (formerly the Luxembourg Income Study), a cross-national data archive and research center located in Luxembourg, with a satellite office at the Graduate Center.

Gornick is the co-author or co-editor of four books: Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment; Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor; Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries; and Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth. Her articles on gender inequality, employment, and social policy have been published in many journals, and she serves on several advisory and editorial boards. Her research has received generous support from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Governors’ Association, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Bank.

Gornick attended Harvard University, where she was awarded a B.A. (psychology and social relations, 1980), an M.P.A. (Kennedy School, 1987), and a Ph.D. (political economy and government, 1994).