Ann Bookman is Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Workplace Center. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was the Policy and Research Director at the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor and was Executive Director of the bipartisan Commission on Leave, established by Congress to study the impact of the Family and Medical Leave Act. She is the author of Children, Families and Women's Work (2000).