Jyl Josephson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies at Rutgers-Newark. She is the author of numerous articles on gender and public policy. She is the author of Gender, Families, and State: Child Support Policy in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and co-edited Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives (Rowman & Littlefield 2003) with Cynthia Burack. She is currently working with Paula Ressler on a manuscript regarding projects that seek to make schools safer for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and their allies.