Eleanor Bernert Sheldon

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Eleanor Harriet Bernert Sheldon (March 19, 1920 – May 8, 2021)

sociologist who was president of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) from 1972 to 1979,[3] and was one of the key pioneers in the use of social indicators in sociology.[4] In the 1970s, as multinational corporations recognized the need to appoint women to their boards of directors, Sheldon became the first woman to serve on the boards of several major companies, including Citibank, Mobil, Heinz, and Equitable Holdings.[5]

Education and career

Sheldon was an alumna of Colby-Sawyer College, graduating in 1940,[6] and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[7] graduating in 1942. After working in Washington DC in the Office of Population Research, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and Department of Agriculture,[8] she completed her Ph.D. in 1949 as a William Rainey Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago.[8][9] She taught sociology at Columbia University from 1951 to 1952,[8] and in the late 1950s and early 1960s, worked in the school of nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles.[8][10] Prior to joining the SSRC as president, she worked at the Russell Sage Foundation.[8]

Books

Sheldon wrote or edited multiple books, including:

  • Local Community Fact Book of Chicago (edited as Eleanor H. Bernert with Louis Wirth, University of Chicago Press, 1949)[11]
  • America's Children (as Eleanor H. Bernert, John Wiley & Sons, 1958)[12]
  • Pupils and Schools in New York City: a Fact Book (with Raymond A. Glazier, Russell Sage Foundation, 1965)
  • Indicators of Social Change: Concepts and Measurements (with Wilbert E. Moore, Russell Sage Foundation, 1968)[13]
  • Family Economic Behavior: Problems and Perspectives (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1973)[14]

Recognition

In 1971, she was elected as a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[15] She was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[16] In 1991 she won the distinguished alumnus award of the University of North Carolina.[7]

Family Life

Sheldon was born as Eleanor Harriet Bernert on March 19, 1920 in Hartford, Connecticut[17] to M.G. and Fannie (Myers) Bernert. She had 2 children named John Anthony Sheldon and James Sheldon Jr to James Sheldon Sr.

References

  1. ^ Full name and birth year from Worldcat
  2. ISSN 0099-9660
    . Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  3. ^ Executive Officers, Social Science Research Council, retrieved 2017-11-11
  4. ISBN 9781506320212
    , Albert D. Biderman, Otis Dudley Duncan, Albert Reiss, Jr., and Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, who played major roles in the emergence and development of the field of social indicators in the 1960s and 1970s
  5. ISSN 0099-9660
    . Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  6. ^ "Eleanor Harriet Bernert Sheldon papers finding aid". Smith College Libraries. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  7. ^ a b Distinguished Alumnus and Alumna Award, Office of Faculty Governance, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, retrieved 2017-11-11
  8. ^ a b c d e "Eleanor Bernert Sheldon elected president of the council", Items, vol. 26, no. 2, Social Science Research Council, pp. 13–14, June 1972
  9. ^ University of Chicago Magazine, vol. 69, Summer 1977, ELEANOR BERNERT SHELDON, PhD'49, was among those honored at a banquet held in honor of women directors of corporations.
  10. ISBN 9780803286061. See in particular p. 67
    .
  11. ^ Review of Local Community Fact Book of Chicago:
    • Raymond F. Sletto (June 1951), Journal of the American Statistical Association 46 (254): 275–276,
      doi:10.2307/2279939
  12. ^ Reviews of America's Children:
  13. ^ Reviews of Indicators of Social Change:
  14. ^ Reviews of Family Economic Behavior:
  15. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-11
  16. ^ Alphabetical index of active members, American Academy Arts and Sciences
  17. ^ "Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, 1920-2021: Pioneer in Social Indicators Movement". Social Science Space. May 15, 2021. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
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