Ellen Galinsky, Gender Roles

Ellen Galinsky, MS, is the president and cofounder of Families and Work Institute (FWI), a Manhattan-based nonprofit organization that conducts research on the changing family, changing workforce, and changing community. She is the author of the book Ask the Children: The Breakthrough Study That Reveals How to Succeed at Work and Parenting and coauthor of Family and Work Institute’s other Ask the Children studies, including ones on youth and employment and youth and learning. She is overseeing a 13-part television series on early learning. Ms. Galinsky coauthored the 1992, 1997, and 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce, a nationally representative study of the U.S. workforce, and The 1998 Business Work- Life Study, a nationally representative survey of employers. She is a past president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and serves on many boards, commissions, and task forces. Ms. Galinsky previously was on the faculty at the Bank Street College of Education. She is the author of numerous books, reports, and articles in academic journals and popular magazines.