Acknowledgements

A Woman's Nation Changes Everything Acknowledgements “The Shriver Report” has many partners. Our media partners include NBC Universal, Women at NBCU, Telemundo Network & Stations, and TIME. Our technology partner, Hewlett-Packard, our economic empowerment partner, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, and our model employer partner, Deloitte LLP, give the project substantive reach. In addition, Visa, The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation, PG&E, iVillage, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, and the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security at UC Berkeley School of Law provided for a national footprint of this report. From Maria Shriver This book is filled with facts, and here’s one more: This report wouldn’t even exist without Karen Skelton. She pushed this project from the very beginning. She spearheaded it, massaged it, shepherded it—in short, she made it happen. We’ve been working together for six years, and while Karen may labor behind the scenes, there’s nothing behind-the-scenes about her. She’s a brilliant political strategist, writer, attorney, talent scout, and leader of women and men—and a spectacular mother and friend. She juggles policy, political clients, polls, and prose, and still finds time for yoga and church. She makes normal multitaskers look like they’re standing still. Leslie Miller—who also jumped in before we had a plan or partners—is a veteran communications strategist with enormous talents that enabled us to expand the reach of the project. Leslie is the calm in the storm. She takes the whirlwind of moving pieces, people and targets and creates order and direction. One of this project’s greatest assets is the extraordinary John Podesta. I am hon- ored to partner with him and to call him my friend. This endeavor wouldn’t have 422 Acknowledgements A Woman's Nation Changes Everything been possible had the Center for American Progress—led by John—not been open to this collaboration. Laura Nichols, our CAP ally from the beginning, is a rare jewel—sparkling, brilliant, strong, fierce, loyal. She led a team at CAP that exceeded all expectations and standards of professionalism. Without her we would not have been able to seamlessly blend academic expertise with cultural and current trends. She saw no challenges without solutions, seized opportunities, sought consensus, and became the Super Glue to a phenomenal cross-country marriage. This report is groundbreaking in large part due to the work of CAP’s Heather Boushey and Ann O’Leary. They and their colleagues have all worked incredibly hard around-the-clock to make this project work. And Ed Paisley’s patient and seasoned editing, along with Shannon Ryan’s savvy and stylish layout, made this report stand out like no other report of its kind. Becky Beland assisted in every aspect of execution with the kind of discipline, commitment, and perseverance that gives you confidence in the next generation of up-and-coming women. Senior Advisor Olivia Morgan managed, befriended, learned from, and nurtured our impressive senior advisory council. This team led a group of highly accomplished, passionate people who all believed in this project from the get-go and birthed it. I am grateful for Yasmine Abboud, Coby Atlas, Lyndie Benson, the team at the Dewey Square Group, Tina Frank, Alexandra Gleysteen, Debby Goldberg, Adam Greenfield, Noel Greenwood, Shan- non Marven, Nancy McFadden, Jan Miller, Terri New, Barbara O’Connor, Susan Pinkus, Matt Rallens, Amy Rosenberg, Kristina Schake, and Erin Stein. From the University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Communication Leader- ship and Policy, I am grateful to Geoff Cowan, Geoff Baum, Cinny Kennard, Stacy Smith, Alison Trope, and Rebecca Shapiro. We thank our partner, the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security at UC Berkeley School of Law, led by Ann O’Leary, for the academic rigor and resources they brought to the project. We thank Debbie Fine, CAP’s general counsel, and our team of Lawrence Shire and Peter Grant from Grubman, Indursky & Shire, PC, and Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP’s Steve Guise, for welcomed and wise legal judgments. 423 Acknowledgements The Shriver Report A Woman's Nation Changes Everything Much appreciation goes to all the roundtable participants who shared their personal stories with me and the people who worked to make the roundtables and other meetings around the country happen. I would especially like to thank Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Accel Partners, Aileen Lee from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sue Bostrom and Cisco, Howard Schultz and the Starbucks Headquarters in Seattle, The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, Governor Jennifer Granholm and First Gentleman Dan Mulhern, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, North Avenue Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Helen Torres, Daniel Zingale, and The California Endowment. Thanks to everyone who wrote a personal essay for this project, whose diverse voices let us better understand how living in a woman’s nation changes everything. All of us stand on someone else’s shoulders. I am well aware I wouldn’t be writing this without the courageous women who’ve gone before me—women who fought for Title VII, Title IX, for choice, and those women who paved the way for me to be a journalist. I also thank my mentor, who knows who she is. I tell my daughters, “Because someone else fought for you, you have the luxury of just opening the door and walking through. Be grateful, work hard yourself, and pass it on.” Among those upon whose shoulders we stood on for this report are the amazingly diverse men and women who agreed to advise us along the way, our A Woman’s Nation Advisory Committee: Madeleine K. Albright Christie Hefner Janet Murguía Anna Burger Antonia Hernández Christiane Northrup Majora Carter Yvonne Hunt Suze Orman Sister Joan Chittister Patricia Kempthorne Condoleezza Rice John Chambers Billie Jean King Cheryl Saban Katherine Chon Wendy Kopp Ruth Simmons Eve Ensler Judy Lichtman Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Marty Evans Monica Lozano Mena Trott Bill Frist Todd McCracken Andrea Wong Judy Gold John Miller Daniel Goleman Pat Mitchell Finally, we extend an enormous thank you to our media partners, without whom we would not be heard: NBC News, Telemundo, and TIME. 424 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements The Shriver Report A Woman's Nation Changes Everything From Editors Heather Boushey and Ann O’Leary at the Center for American Progress We would like to thank Maria Shriver and John Podesta for their leadership on this project. Without their collaboration, none of this would have happened. Maria’s team, Karen Skelton and Leslie Miller, showed a dedication to making this report sing and getting every last piece right. We are grateful to them. Laura Nichols at CAP led our team on this effort and we are so grateful for her tireless effort to manage this project on a tight timeline and keep us all on track. This report could not have happened without the dedication and talent of Ed Paisley, who spent countless hours and week- ends working with us, wowing us constantly with his skill, dexterity, and patience throughout. And we are incredibly appreciative of Shannon Ryan’s willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty and for her beautiful layout of the Report. Tremendous thanks go to the Economic Policy team at the Center for American Progress and the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security at UC Berkeley School of Law for providing research support and lending their resources and staff to getting this report finished in time. In particular, we couldn’t have done this without the leadership and good humor of Michael Ettlinger, vice presi- dent of CAP’s economic policy team. A big shout out to the fabulous women at the Center for American Progress for all their help and support—Jessica Arons, Becky Salay, Ilia Rodriguez, Debbie Fine, Allison Lessne, Anna Soellner, Sarah Rosen Wartell, and all the rest. As editors, we are especially grateful for such terrific authors. They worked with us throughout accelerated timelines and detailed editing process. We are so glad that each and every one of you has contributed to this process and it has been a privilege to work with you throughout. Lauren Smith has been the day-to-day backbone of this project and we are grateful for her humor, her dedication, her skills, and especially her tireless effort to make sure that every sentence of this report said what it meant to say. To make sure every fact and footnote was just right, we couldn’t have done this without our fantastic team of research assistants—Justin Masterman, Eleanor Blume, Zoe Savitsky, Tracy Petznick—and CAP’s dedicated economic policy interns, Mad- die Esposito, Jillian Moreno, Regina Topolinskaya, and Ilana Fischer. And special thanks to K.C. Summers, a former (and long-time) editor at The Washington Post 425 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements The Shriver Report A Woman's Nation Changes Everything who is now a freelance writer and editor in Washington, for her deft and concise copy editing work. Special thanks go also to Nick Lepham, for going above and beyond his normal duties to help this report come to fruition. We have imposed on countless colleagues to help us with this work and we are grateful for their time and expertise. We thank Judy Lichtman and Karen Minatelli from the National Partnership for Women and Families, and Marcia Greenberger and Duffy Campbell from the National Women’s Law Center for giv- ing us invaluable advice at the start of this project. We extend sincere gratitude to Lee Badgett, Ellen Bravo, Stephanie Coontz, Katie Corrigan, Liana Fox, Angie Kel- ley, Aarti Kohli, Alan Rosenblatt, Malika Saada Saar, Liz Weiss, and Joan Williams, who gave us guidance throughout the writing process on bringing the chapters together and helping us do our best to incorporate more voices and perspectives.

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