Nicole M. Else-Quest is Professor of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. A first-generation college student, she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining UCLA, she a faculty member at Villanova University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Else-Quest has been teaching the psychology of women and gender regularly since 2004, and has also taught courses on lifespan development, feminism, women in science, and research methods. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and takes an intersectional approach to gender development in adolescence, sexual harassment, and strategies for broadening participation in science and engineering. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of APA Divisions 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women), 9 (Society for the Study of Social Issues), 15 (Educational Psychology), and 44 (Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity). She lives in Los Angeles with her spouse, two children, three cats, and one very good dog.  

Janet Shibley Hyde, the Helen Thompson Woolley Professor of Psychology and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received her education at Oberlin College and the University of California, Berkeley. She first taught a psychology of women course in 1973 at Bowling Green State University, then at Denison University, and she now teaches it at UW-Madison. Hyde's research interests are in gender differences and similarities, as well as gender development in adolescence. She is a past president of APA Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women) and a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hyde served as editor of the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly (1986-1989), and she is also author of the textbook Understanding Human Sexuality. The winner of many teaching awards, Hyde most recently received the James McKeen Cattell Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) for lifetime contributions to the applications of psychology.