Background
Suzanne M. Bianchi was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa to Rita and Pesho Bianchi. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a meat packing plant employee.
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Education
University of Notre Dame. University of Michigan. Creighton University.
Career
Bianchi is the oldest of six children. After graduating valedictorian from her high school, Bianchi was the first in her family to go to college and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Creighton University, her Master of Arts from University of Notre Dame, and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She began her career as a demographer for the United States. Census Bureau, where she remained until 1994, then she joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, where she eventually chaired the university’s sociology department and directed the Maryland Population Research Center.
In 2000 she served as President of the Population Association of America.
In 2009 she moved to University of California, Los Angeles, where she was Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities. Among her main fields of study she focused on working mothers, researching and analyzing changes in American family life during the last decades.
Bianchi died from pancreatic cancer on November 4, 2013, aged 61. Her daughter Jennifer said of her mother, "She was very much aware of the constraints of juggling career and motherhood.
She lived as well as researched lieutenant".
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November 4, 2013 (aged 61)