[1][2] In 1929, while still a student, she married Conrad Taeuber; he and their children Richard and Karl would also become noted demographers.

[2] She took a faculty position at Mount Holyoke College in 1931, but in 1934 her husband joined the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and she moved with him to Washington, DC.

The first one gives a historical and sociological overview of Japanese life and culture, followed by sections on the Meiji period and the modern era.

[2] The Universities of Missouri and Minnesota also awarded her accomplishments, as did the American Sociological Society, which gave her their Stuart.

[1][2] The Irene B. Taeuber Award for research achievements of the Population Association of America is named in her honor.