She was a member of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), the Women's Council on Energy and the Environment Archived 2020-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, and the Mid-Atlantic Archaeological Conference and, as one of the first female students in Washington State University's (WSU) Anthropology doctoral program, she actively mentored women in cultural and environmental sciences throughout her career, promoting gender equality in the field.
Daugherty, not taking issue with Janet's pregnancy, offered the couple graduate student positions with the Ozette Archaeological Project in Washington State.
After finishing up her work at Ozette, Janet Friedman briefly took a job as research archaeologist running a cultural resource program for Northern California State University, Chico, in 1976, before moving to the position of Archaeologist for the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area Planning Team, which encompassed portions of the Nez Perce, Payette, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests.
[3] Friedman helped write management plans for the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area and the Snake River in Oregon and Idaho.
[4][5][6] She advocated for the consideration of cultural resources in planning and management decisions as a means of ending the extensive looting that was taking place in the forests.
After this, she began supervising environmental review work for Dames and Moore, Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland, a company with which she would produce a multitude of reports over the remainder of her career.
[1] Janet Friedman made substantial contributions to public archaeology or cultural resource management in the United States beginning in the 1970s.