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Acknowledgements First and foremost, we are grateful to the students and faculty of the departments we visited. All of you were very generous with your time and insights, and we appreciate it. Department secretaries and chairs, in particular, worked hard to make our visits productive and pleasant. We couldn’t have done it without you, and we cannot thank you enough. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation Program for Gender Equity under Grant Number 0120450. We are grateful to NSF for supporting us, and to Ruta Sevo and Margrete Klein for their feedback. The project was conceived while BLW was a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics. Everyone on that committee was very supportive, especially Suzanne Otwell, Judy Franz, and Alice White. Neal Abraham, a fellow committee member, helped write the first draft of the proposal. We are grateful to Rachel Ivie, Patrick Mulvey, and Kimberley Nies of the American Institute of Physics for providing statistical support. Juan Burciaga, Sue V. Rosser, and Mary Frank Fox read early drafts of the proposal and provided helpful feedback. Our colleagues at Colorado College allowed us to practice our interview techniques with them. Sarah Hautzinger introduced us to NUD*IST and helped us get started with that very useful program. Gail Murphy-Geiss helped us to understand the socialization of African-American women and African-American family dynamics. We are also grateful to Elaine Seymour and Nancy Hewitt, the authors of Talking about Leaving for inspiration and useful methodological information. |